EGO PSYCHOLOGY THEORIES
Combine biological and psychological views of people's development while recognising the complex influences of sociocultural dimensions on individual functioning.
EINSTELLUNG
1. Having a relatively inflexible mental attitude. 2. The tendency to respond in a stereptypical way.
ELDERLY HOUSING
Accomodation suitable for the older adults designed to take account changes in in physical and cognitive abiltities.
ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY (ECT)
The controversial ytreatment that induces a seizure in a patient by passing an electric current through the templs.
ELECTROOCULOGRAM (EOG)
Graphic representation of the elcetrical potential between the front and back of the eye.
ELEMENTARY COGNITIVE TASK (ECT)
A simple test designed to measure participants response times as they perform tasks.
ELLIS-VAN CREVELD SYNDROME
An autosomal recessive disorder where a person has extra fingers and toes, poorly formed hair, teeth and nails with skeletal…
EMOTIONAL INSTABILITY
The tendency to have rapid emotional change. See affective liability.
EMOTION-FOCUSED THERAPY
Therapy focusing on emotion as the determinant of pesonality development.
EMPIRICALLY DERIVED TEST
A test developed using the content, criteria and validating procedures.
ENCEPHALIZATION
Transfer of cognitive functions from more primitive brain areas to cerebral centres during evolution. See evolution of the brain.
ENDOGENOUS OPIOID
A substance the body produces that has an analgesic and euphoric effect like morphine.