ELECTROTONIC CONDUCTION
The passive and decrease of a chage along a nerve or muscle pathway.
EMPIRICAL-RATIONAL STRATEGY
Social psychology. The idea that societal and insitutional change can be brought about if the public receives enough information.
ENDOPHENOTYPE
Biological markers easier to detect than genetic sequences that may be useful in researching the vulnerability to a range of…
ENVIRONMENTAL LOAD THEORY
The theory that humans have a limited ability to handle environmental stimuli.
ETHNOCENTRISM
A tendency to malign and reject another ethnic group while glorifying your own. See ingroup bias- racism.
EXCITATORY CONDITIONING
Pavlovian conditioning. Conditioning where a conditioned stimulus acts as a signal that an unconditioned stimulus will follow.
EXPLANATION
The account to provide meaning for an event or phenomenom. See scientific explanation.
LEADERSHIP THEORIES
Theories which attempt to apply rules and ideals to explain the behaviours of leaders oaf group. Primary theory groups include…
LESBIAN FEMINISM
a theology which focuses on the right of women to have the right to control and then identify as the…
LONELINESS
a sometimes long lasting feeling of having no alternative to turn to in times of distress and depression. Generally classed…
MAIN EFFECT
is the consistent effect of a single factor over other factors in the same experiment.
MARGINAL INTELLIGENCE
An intelligence level which typically sits between normal and mentally deficient.
MEANS-ENDS ANALYSIS
is a method used in artificial intelligence which involves setting up smaller sub-goals which complement the end aim or goal…
MEMORY HARDENING
is the process of concreting certain memories even when they are incorrect, to ensure the individual believes them as accurate…