Neurology

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DYADIC RELATIONSHIP

1. A committed 2 person relationship. 2. Relationship between therapist and client.

ECHO PHENOMENON

Exhibiting echolalia or echopraxia or a combination of them.

EFFECT SIZE

The size of an effect in a study. See combing effect sizes- statistical significance.

EGOCENTRIC PREDICAMENT

The problem arising from that each person's experience is essentially private. See solipsism.

ELOPEMENT

1. Sdecretly leaving home to marry. 2. A patient leaving a mental hospital without permission. 3. Slang term for an

EMOTIONAL HANDICAP

Learning or behavioural disorder with fears and anxieties preventing a child from functioning socially or academically.

EMULATION

Ability to comprehend the goal of a model and engage in similar behaviour to acheive the goal.

ENDOSOMATIC CURRENT

The electric current that a living organism produces.

EPIGENESIS

1. 1. Theory that the features of an organism arise from interaction between genetic and environmental influences. See nature-nurture controversy.

ERROR OF HABITUATION

The tendency to continue witha previous response past the point where a transition should ocur.

EUGENICS

The social and political philosophy is based loosely of the evolutionary theory of Darwin and research by Galton.

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

LOOMING

a visual phenomena which occurs as an object moves closer to the observer, this has the effect that the object

MALEVOLENT TRANSFORMATION

is the (sometimes classes as paranoid) feeling that an individual is living with others or in a society in which