EXCITATORY SYNAPSE
A synapse where the firing of a fibre causes an excitatory post synaptic potential in the post synaptic neuron. Compare…
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.
ECHOIC MEMORY
A persistence of an auditory stimulation in the nervous system at the end of the stimulus. Also called auditory sensory…
ECOLOGICAL PERCEPTION
The perception an organism has of its environment and its variables as its place in the real world. See direct…
EDUCATIONAL ACCELERATION
The progress of education at a faster than normal rate. Designed to keep gifted students interested .
EGO CONTROL
When the tendency to inhibit expression of emotional and motivational impulses.