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EXCITABILITY

1. The way some people are aroused to emotional responses. 2. property of a neuron reacting to stimulation. See action

EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE

This is evidence supporting innocence.

EXERCISE PLAY

Play that involves gross locomotor movements such as running.

EX

1. A sense of apprehension associated with the feeling that life is meaningless and futile. 2. Feeling of fear and

EXORCISM

The practice of expelling evil spirits from a person. See inhabitance.

EXPECTATION-STATES THEORY

An explanation for status differentiation in groups that proposes members allocate status to those who are capable but also to

EXPERIMENTAL EPILEPSY

Causing an epileptic attack in animal.

EXPERIMENTER

The party devising the experiment.

EXPIATION

The atonement for wrongdoing representing acknowledgement and relieves and reduces feelings of guilt.

EXPLOSIVE PERSONALITY

A personality with frequent outbursts of uncontrolled anger and hostility. See intermittent explosive disorder.

EXTENDED-STAY REVIEW

The review of a hospital stay that exceeds what was thought to be sufficient. See continued-stay review.

EXTERNAL STIGMATA

Any peculiarities or physical marks used to aid condition identification.

EARLY AND PERIODIC SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT (EPSDT)

Screening for early signs of disorders and disease carried out at speific intervals.

EBBINGHAUS'S CURVE OF RETENTION

The graphic depiction of forgetting over time after learning.

ECLECTIC COUNSELING

Counselling combining different techniques and findings.

ECONOMY OF EFFORT

The tendency to act efficiently and to m inimise energy expenditure. See elegant solution- Occam's razor.

ED5() (ED-50)

Abbreviation for effective dose. See therapeutic ratio.

EDUCATIONAL PLACEMENT

Matching students to the appropriate educational program or environment.

EFFECTOR

1. An organ that produces an effect. 2. Motor nerve ending triggering an activity. 3. The part of the boy

EFFORTFUL PROCESSING

Mental activity needing deliberation and control that involves the sense of effort. Compare automaticity. See mental effort. What is effortful processing in psychology? According