EXISTENCE, RELATEDNESS, AND GROWTH THEORY (ERG THEORY)
Variation of Maslow's motivational hierarchy that is applied in industrial and organisational psychology.
EX-PATIENT CLUB
Psychiatry. Where an group is organised for ongoing care by former mental patients as part of an aftrcare program. See…
EXPERIMENTAL REALISM
The extent that an experimental situation is realistic. See mundane realism.
EXPERIMENTER PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECT
The unintended effect on a person's rsponses associated with individual differences of psychological and social characteristics of the experimenters.
EXPLICIT PROCESS
1. Cognitive effect that can be accurately derived. 2. Occasional synonym for conscious process. Compare implicit process.
EXPRESSIVE APHASIA
Aphasia that leaves a person unable to speak, write and gesture properly. Also called cortical motor aphasia- expressive asphasia- speech…
EXTERNAL AUDITORY MEATUS
The canal conducting sound through the external ear to the tympanic membrane. Also called the auditory canal- ear canal.
EXTEROCEPTIVE STIMULUS
Stimulus coming from the external world. Compare interoceptive stimulus.
EASTERBROOK HYPOTHESIS
Where the range of cues attended to is inversely related to the degree of arousal.
ECHOENCEPHALOGRAM ECHOGRAPHIA
Pathological writing where the person doesn't the words and phrases they are copying.
ECOLOGICAL NICHE
1.The position or function of an organism or a population within a biological and physical environment. 2. The area within…
ECSTATIC TRANCE
Trance like state of joy or happiness associated with religous practices. See altered state of consciousness- mysticism- voodoo.
EDUCATION FOR ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT (EAHCA EHA)
An act passed by US congress that guaranteed all childre access to education regardless of their disablities.
EDUCATIONAL THERAPY
Treatment interventions for people with learning disabilities, emotional or behavioural problems that interfere with learning.
EFFERENT PATHWAY
Neural pathway carrying impulses away from a region toward an effector. Compare afferent pathway.
EGO STRENGTH
Psychoanalytical theory.The ability of the ego to maintainthe effective balance between inner id impulses and outer reality.
EGOISTIC HELPING
A type of helping behaviour where the goal of the helper is to increase positive feelings or to recieve some…