ENTITY THEORY
Belief that psychological attributes are fixed and essential rather than developing gradually.
ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES
Beliefs of people and society in relation to nature, ecology and issues of the environment.
ENVIRONMENTAL PRESS-COMPETENCE MODEL
Model of stress and adaptation where adaptaive functons depends on the interaction between external demands and an individual's competence to…
EPILEPSY SURGERY
Neurosurgery to the brain that removes the focus for uncontrollable epileptic seizures.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Under US federal law that all people have the opportunity to find employment regardless of race, sex, age, colour etc.…
EQUIVALENCY TEST
Assessment of your level of education whether you have completed a course of study or not.
EROTIC DELUSION
The false belief that you have had a sexual affair with a public figure. Also called erotomanic delusion. See delusional…
ERROR ANALYSIS
1. Study of human and design factors that can lead to an error. See accident analysis- failure modes and effects…
ESCAPE BEHAVIOR
A response that is designed to move away from aversive stimulus by withdrawal or entering a fantasy world. Compare avoidance…
ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY
Administering a natural or synthetic estrogen to releive symptoms from menoapuse. See hormone replacement therapy.
ETHMOCEPHALY
Birth defect where the nose is deformed and can be associated with cebocephaly.
EVERSION THEORY OF AGING
Where aging arises from functional deterioration of body tissues due to collagen changes.
EVOLVED MECHANISM
A subsystem of the brain that results from natural selection and solves a problem relating to survival or reproduction of…