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EXPERIMENTER OBSERVER EFFECT

An error by the investigator in the perception or recording of data.

EXPLICIT PREJUDICE

The prejudice against a social group by a person that may or may not be expressed. Compare explicit prejudice.

EXPRESSIONISM FACTOR

Psychological aesthetics. Components of artistic style emphasising the artrist's emotional experience.

EXTERIORIZATION

1. Act of relating your inner feelings and attitudes to external reality. 2. Outward expression of personal ideas.

EXTEROCEPTION

Input of information about stimulation from outside the body.

EARLY-SELECTION THEORY

A theory about attention saying that a filter blocks out unattended messages early in the strem of processing before a

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

The graphical record of the beating of various chambers of the heart.

ECOFEMINISM

Combining feminism with a commitment to the environment emphasising exploitation of the environment as well as women.

ECSTASY

The state of intense pleasure and elation that can be evident in cases of mania.

EDUCATION

1. Process of teaching or gaining knowledge, skills and values. 2. Field of advanced taecher preparation study.

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE (ETS)

The non-profit organisation that helps to advance the quality and equity in education.

EFFERENT NEURON

Any neuron carrying impulses away from the central nervous system.

EGO BOUNDARY

1. Concept that we can distuiguish between self and not self. 2. The boundary between ego and the id or

EGO STATE

Psychoanalytical theory. The integrated state of mind determining our relationship to other people and the environment.

EGOISM

Personality that is marked by selfishness and disregard for others. See egotism.

EJACULATIO RETARDATA

Delay in ejaculation during sexual intercourse due to psychogenic factors. Also called male continence.

ELECTIVE

A course of education chosen from alternatives not needed for the program studied but are optional.

ELECTRODE

The instrument with a positive and negative pole used to stimulate tissues or record the elecyrical activity. Also called a

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC AUDIOMETRY

Class of procedures for measuring auditory function using electrical responses.

ELEMENTARY PERCEIVER AND MEMORIZER (EPAM)

A computer program reflecting a rote model of learning of nonsense syllables by humans.