Neurology

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DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA

A dissociative disorder. Where a person can't recall important information about experiences because they were traumatic and stressful.

DOMAIN

1. Class of entities constituting a subject matter of science. 2. Field of mastery. 3. Biological taxonomy. Highest level of

DREAM-WORK

Psychoanalytic theory. Transforming the latent content of a dream into a manifest content.

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 COMMISSION

A type of human error where the person say presses a buton twice instead of once and an error occurs.

ETYMOLOGY

Study of origins of words.

EXECUTIVE STRESS

Stress experienced by management personnel. See burnout- occupational stress- stress.

EXPERIENCE

1. The conscious event. 2. Present content of consciousness. 3. An event resulting in earning.

EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS

A set of data analytical techniques alledgely revealing the structure underlying the coefficients. There is no unique solution.

LEARNING SET

a form of learning discriminatory ideals where the learner is taught for example that one object contains a food reward

LEVINSON'S ADULT DEVELOPMENT THEORY

a model which maps the basis of human development where adulthood is split into the following categories- early, middle and

LIMBIC SYSTEM

a group of nuclei found within the brain of humans which is involved in the process of the autonomic nervous