Glossary of terms used on this site
Glossaries
| Term | Main definition |
|---|---|
| effortful processing | Glossaries - Psychology encoding of information that takes effort and attention |
| ego | Glossaries - Psychology aspect of personality that represents the self, or the part of one’s personality that is visible to others |
| egocentrism | Glossaries - Psychology preoperational child’s difficulty in taking the perspective of others |
| elaborative rehearsal | Glossaries - Psychology thinking about the meaning of new information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory |
| electroencephalography (EEG) | Glossaries - Psychology recording the electrical activity of the brain via electrodes on the scalp |
| embryo | Glossaries - Psychology multi-cellular organism in its early stages of development |
| emerging adulthood | Glossaries - Psychology newly defined period of lifespan development from 18 years old to the mid-20s; |
| emotion | Glossaries - Psychology subjective state of being often described as feelings |
| emotional intelligence | Glossaries - Psychology ability to understand emotions and motivations in yourself and others |
| empirical | Glossaries - Psychology grounded in objective, tangible evidence that can be observed time and time again, regardless of who is observing |
| empirical method | Glossaries - Psychology method for acquiring knowledge based on observation, including experimentation, rather than a method based only on forms of logical argument or previous authorities |
| encoding | Glossaries - Psychology input of information into the memory system |
| endocrine system | Glossaries - Psychology series of glands that produce chemical substances known as hormones |
| engram | Glossaries - Psychology physical trace of memory |
| epigenetics | Glossaries - Psychology study of gene-environment interactions, such as how the same genotype leads to different phenotypes |