| File Name |
Description |
| Ecological Validity | This type of validity refers to how well a study can be related to or reflects ... |
| Educational Psychology | This is an applied area of psychology which uses psychological insights and techniques to ... |
| EEG | An EEG is an electroencephalgram which is a method of recording activity in a living ... |
| Ego | According to Freud the ego is the part of the personality structure that deals with ... |
| Eidetic Memory | This is commonly referred to as photographic memory. It is a visual or acoustic memory ... |
| Emic | This is a term used to refer to culturally specific behaviour. Therefore an ... |
| Empirical | In terms of research this refers to data that are collected through observing or ... |
| Endogenous Opioides | These are opiate like substances that the body produces naturally which reduce the ... |
| Environmental Psychology | This is an applied area of psychology which uses psychological insights and techniques to ... |
| EPI | This is an abbreviation of the Eysenck Personality Inventory. The EPI is a ... |
| Epilepsy | A neurological disorder which causes occasional storms of electrical activity in the ... |
| Epinephrine | See adrenaline ... |
| Equity Theory | This is a theory which argues that people choose relationships in which they will benefit ... |
| Ethics | These are a set of guidelines which psychologists carrying out research should ... |
| Ethnocentric bias | This is the tendency to perceive the world from your own cultural group, such as ... |
| Ethnocentric sampling bias | Most of the well known psychological research reported from before the 1980s was ... |
| Ethological view of aggression | Ethological (or instinctual) theories of aggression propose that humans possess an innate ... |
| Etic | According to cross-cultural psychology this is a term used to refer to an account of ... |
| Evolutionary Psychology | This psychological approach attempts to explain behaviour in terms of how it enhances ... |
| Experiment | An experiment is a research method used by psychologists which involves the manipulation ... |
| Experimental Designs | This is the process of organising an experiment so that we can investigate the possible ... |
| Experimenter Bias | This refers to the way that the experimenter’s expectations can influence the ... |
| Experimenter Effect | This refers to the unwanted influences in an experiment which can be produced by the ... |
| External Locus of Control | If an individual believes that they do not feel that they personally can control their ... |
| External Reliabilty | This type of reliability refers to the extent to which a measure varies from one use ... |
| External validity | External validity refers to whether the findings of a study really can be generalised ... |
| Extraneous variable | An extraneous variable is a variable which could affect the dependent variable but which ... |
| Eye witness testimony | Descriptions of events given by observers of an event. These are generally used ... |
