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