Neurology

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ECLECTIC COUNSELING

Counselling combining different techniques and findings.

EGO ANALYSIS

Techniques directed towards discovering wekanesses and strength in our ego. See ego strength- ego weakness.

EIGENVALUE

Linear algebra. The degree of shrinking or stretching that an eigenvector of A undergoes as aresult of transformation. Also called

EMBLEM

A gesture we use in place of words such as nodding for yes. See non-verbal lanhuage.

EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Philosophy. Knowledge gained from experience. 2. Sciences. Knowledge gained from experiment and observation. See empiricism.

END SPURT

The increased productivity or gain in performance near the end of a task.

ENTITY THEORY

Belief that psychological attributes are fixed and essential rather than developing gradually.

EPISODIC MEMORY

The memory for a specific and personally experinced event whose retirval relies on cues of asociation. See autobiographical memory- autonectic

ESCAPE BEHAVIOR

A response that is designed to move away from aversive stimulus by withdrawal or entering a fantasy world. Compare avoidance

EVALUATION RESEARCH

Applying scientific principles, methods and theories to identify, describe, measure and predict importnat factors to develop human service delivery systems.

EXISTENTIAL JUDGMENT

Philosophy. Judgement dealing with existence, origin and the nature of things.

EXPERIMENTAL NEUROSIS

The disordered emotional or behavioural state and high anxiety levels seen in animals in experiments.

EXTERNAL VALIDITY

The extent that research can be generalized beyond the results to other situations or people.

LEARNING TYPES

Different styles of learning such as some groups of people prefer visual based learning whilst others prefer textbook based learning.

LEXICON

the complete store of vocabulary in a language.

LINGUISTIC MINORITY

a group of people who are a minority in their society to still speak a minority language.

LOCUS OF CONTROL

first proposed by U.S. psychologist Julian Rotter, the locus of control is a construct which attempts to explain the reason

LOUDNESS SUMMATION

is the representation of each individual part of an overall sound displayed to indicate their portion of the final loudness

MANAGERIAL PSYCHOLOGY

is the application of an understanding of behavioural psychology in human beings to executive and managerial positions to help support

MASS REFLEX 1

is usually a reflex action which occurs on a subconscious level in the human body as a result of a