DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION RELATIONSHIP
Social relationship in groups with a leader or a dominant member with priority of access to resourcesover more subordinate members.
DUAL ATTITUDES
The two attitudes held by a person about the same object that are in contradiction with each other.
DYNAMIC PSYCHOLOGY
1. Any system of psychology that looks at drive and motivation. 2. Theory of psychology emphasising causation and motivation relating…
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…
EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE
1. Philosophy. Knowledge gained from experience. 2. Sciences. Knowledge gained from experiment and observation. See empiricism.
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.…
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…