DYADIC RELATIONSHIP
1. A committed 2 person relationship. 2. Relationship between therapist and client.
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.
EMOTIONAL HANDICAP
Learning or behavioural disorder with fears and anxieties preventing a child from functioning socially or academically.
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.
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…