Neurology

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DUAL REPRESENTATION

Being able to comprehend an object as itself and representing another thing. Also called dual encoding- dual orientation.

DYSEXECUTIVE SYNDROME (DES)

A collection of symptoms that involve impaired executive control over actions. Caused by frontal lobe brain damage.

ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY

1. The degree where results obtained from research are representative to conditions in the wider world.2. Perception. The degree that

EGO IDENTITY

1. Psychoanalytical theory.The experience of the self as a recognisable entity. 2. The gradual acquisition of a sense of continuity,

ELABORATIVE REHEARSAL

An encoding strategy to facilitate information of memory linking new information to that already known. See depth of processing hypothesis-

EMERGENTISM

The view that complex phenomena have mergent properties arising from interactions of more basic processes.

EMPIRICAL VALIDITY

The validity that is based on results of observation and experimentation.

ENDOGENOUS

Originating within the body rssulting fromnormal proceses. Compare exogenous.

ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES

Beliefs of people and society in relation to nature, ecology and issues of the environment.

EQUILIBRIUM

The state of mental or physical balance or stability. See homeostasis.

ETHICAL JUDGMENT

1. The moral decision made by a person in a dilemma.2. The faculty of making moral distinctions. Also called moral

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY

A theory accounting for evolution of organisms over successive generations.

EXISTENTIALISM

A philosophical and literary movement coming out of europe between the World Wars and was dominant through the 1940's and

EXPERIMENTER EFFECT

One of 2 errors. (a) errors from the experimenter, (b) the bias from effects of the participants. See experimenter bias-

LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE THEORY (LMX THEORY!

An assumption that leaders will develop relationships which typically involve a degree of exchange between themselves and subordinates or co-workers.

LEISURE LIFESTYLE

A lifestyle (way of living) in which free time, otherwise referred to as leisure time forms a large part of

LIFE SATISFACTION

the degree which adults (typically) find the lives they lead rich, meaningful, full or of a generally high quality. Improving

LITERAL PARAPHASIA

a disturbance in the natural flow of speech where elements are replaced with other components making the speech difficult to

LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE

a step by step approach to mathematical calculations moving from one logical stage to the next in order to solve

MACHIAVELLIANISM

a belief that ends justify means, however ruthless the consequences and how it affects others.