ECHOIC MEMORY
A persistence of an auditory stimulation in the nervous system at the end of the stimulus. Also called auditory sensory…
EGOCENTRIC SPEECH
Speech not directed at others or where there is no attempt to change thoughts or to take into account another…
EMANCIPATION DISORDER
Disorder of early adulthood where a person wants to leave home and be free from parental control but is concerned…
ENCAPSULATION
1. Keeping thing separate. 2. The enclosure that is a covering such as a sheath.
ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY
A field that identifies the psychological principles governing human interaction in the environment, systems, and products and applying them to…
EPIGENETIC THEORY
The concept that mind and consciousness dvelop when living organisms reach a high level of compexity. See emergence.
ERROR OF HABITUATION
The tendency to continue witha previous response past the point where a transition should ocur.
EXEMPLIFICATION
The strategy a person uses to make other people regard them as highly moral and virtuous.
EXPERIMENT
The series of observations under controlled conditions used to study relationships to draw a causal inference.
EXPRESSED EMOTION (EE)
Negative emotions that are expressed by family members to the person with a mental or emotional disorder.
LEARNING SKILLS
a set of skills used in the process of acquiring new knowledge, typically in a classroom setting.
LEXICAL ACCESS
Another term of vocabulary retrieval, where individuals produce a specific word or phrase from their lexicon of knowledge on prompting…
LINEAR CAUSATION
a simple explanation of the cause and effect hypothesis in that a simple event will have been caused by a…
LOCK-AND-KEY THEORY
the idea that, especially in terms of microbiology, molecules will fit a receptor site exactly, similar to how a certain…
MALEVOLENT TRANSFORMATION
is the (sometimes classes as paranoid) feeling that an individual is living with others or in a society in which…
MASKED DEPRESSION
is the deliberate and (potentially) dangerous hiding or masking of depressive mood swings in the personality of an individual. This…