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Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT)

early bilingualism

early detection

early experience

early immersion

early infantile autism

early intervention

Early Years Cognitive Battery

Early Years of Marriage Project (EYM Project)

early-morning awakening insomnia

early-onset Alzheimer’s disease

early-selection theory

ease-of-learning judgment

Easterbrook hypothesis

eating compulsion

eating disorder

Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention, Inc.

Ebbinghaus curve

Ebbinghaus illusion

eccentric projection

écho des pensées

echocardiography

echoencephalography

eclectic behaviorism

eclectic counseling

eclectic psychotherapy

ecobehavioral assessment

ecological assessment

ecological fallacy

ecological momentary assessment (EMA)

ecological niche

ecological perception

ecological perspective

ecological psychology

ecological study

ecological systems theory

ecological validity

Economo’s disease

economy of effort

economy principle

ecosystemic approach

ecstatic trance

ECT-induced amnesia

ectopic pregnancy

Edinger–Westphal nucleus

educable mentally retarded (EMR)

Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA; EHA)

educational acceleration

educational age (EA)

educational attainment level

educational counseling

educational diagnosis

educational guidance

educational linguistics

educational measurement

educational neuroscience

educational pacing

educational placement

educational program

educational psychology

educational quotient (EQ)

educational retardation

educational sport psychology

Educational Testing Service (ETS)

educational tests

educational therapy

Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS)

Edwards Social Desirability Scale

Edwards syndrome

EEG biofeedback

EEG measures of intelligence

effect variable

effect-size correlation

effective dose (ED)

effective stimulus

effectiveness evaluation

effectiveness research

efferent motor aphasia

efferent nerve fiber

efferent neuron

efferent pathway

efficacy research

efficient cause

effort after meaning

effort justification

effort syndrome

effortful processing

effortless attention

ego development

ego integration

ego integrity versus despair

ego involvement

ego orientation

ego transcendence

ego-boundary loss

ego-centered network

ego-defensive function of an attitude

ego-dystonic homosexuality

egocentric predicament

egocentric speech

egoistic helping

egoistic relative deprivation

egoistic suicide

eighth cranial nerve

either–or fallacy

either–or thinking

ejaculatory duct

Ekbom’s syndrome

elaborated code

elaboration-likelihood model (ELM)

elaborative rehearsal

elective abortion

elective affinity

elective bilingualism

elective mutism

Electra complex

electric ophthalmia

electric potential

electric shock method

electrical activity of the brain

electrical intracranial stimulation

electrical self-stimulation of the brain (ESSB)

electrical stimulation

electrical stimulation of the cortex

electrical synapse

electrical transcranial stimulation (ETS)

electroacupuncture

electrocardiogram (ECG; EKG)

electrocardiographic effect

electrocochleography (ECochG)

electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

electrocorticography (ECoG)

electrode placement

electrodermal changes

electrodermal response (EDR)

electrodiagnosis

electroencephalographic audiometry

electroencephalography (EEG)

electrolyte imbalance

electromagnetic spectrum

electromyography (EMG)

electronarcosis

electronic aid to daily living

electronic brainstorming

electronic cigarette (e-cigarette)

electronic health record (EHR)

electronic nose

electronystagmography

electrooculography (EOG)

electroolfactography (EOG)

electrophysiologic audiometry

electrophysiology

electroplethysmography

electroretinography

electroshock therapy (EST)

electrosleep therapy

electrostimulation

electrostimulation of the brain (ESB)

electrostimulator

electrotactile aid

electrotonic conduction

elegant solution

element-level compatibility effect

elementary cognitive task (ECT)

Elephant Man’s disease

elevated plus maze

elevator phobia

eleventh cranial nerve

elicited behavior

elimination by aspects

elimination disorder

elimination drive

elite bilingualism

Ellis–van Creveld syndrome

emancipated minor

emancipation disorder

embalming fluid

embedded figure

Embedded Figures Test (EFT)

embedded sentence

embeddedness of an attitude

embodied cognition

embryo transfer

embryonic stage

embryonic stem cell

emergency call system

emergency intervention

Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)

emergency psychotherapy

emergency reaction

emergency services

emergency syndrome

emergent evolution

emergent feature

emergent leader

emergent literacy

emergent property

emergent-norm theory

emerging adulthood

emic–etic distinction

emitted behavior

Emory Dyssemia Index (EDI)

emotion regulation

emotion-focused coping

emotion-focused couples therapy

emotion-focused therapy (EFT)

emotional abuse

emotional adjustment

emotional anesthesia

emotional blocking

emotional charge

emotional cognition

emotional conflict

emotional contagion

emotional content

emotional dependence

emotional deprivation

emotional deterioration

emotional development

emotional disorder

emotional disposition

emotional dissemblance

emotional disturbance

emotional divorce

emotional dysregulation

emotional engineering

emotional expression

emotional flooding

emotional illness

emotional immaturity

emotional incest

emotional inoculation

emotional insight

emotional instability

emotional insulation

emotional intelligence

emotional intelligence quotient

emotional isolation

emotional maturity

emotional memory

emotional processing theory

emotional quotient

emotional reeducation

emotional release

emotional response

emotional security

emotional stability

emotional stress

emotional stupor

emotional support

emotional tension

emotional unconscious

emotional valence

emotionally based persuasion

emotive imagery

emotive technique

empathic failure

empathy training

empathy-altruism hypothesis

empiric-risk figure

empirical construct

empirical grounding

empirical knowledge

empirical method

empirical psychology

empirical reality

empirical validity

empirical-criterion keying

empirical-rational strategy

empirically keyed test

employee appraisal

employee assistance program (EAP)

employee comparison technique

employee engagement

employee evaluation

Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)

employee training

employment at will

employment counseling

employment discrimination

employment interview

employment psychology

employment test

empowerment evaluation

empty-chair technique

enacted social support (enacted support)

enactive representation

encapsulated end organ

encéphale isolé

encephalitis lethargica

encephalization

encephalofacial angiomatosis

encephalomalacia

encephalomyelitis

encoding specificity

encoding strategy

encoding variability theory

encounter group

encounter movement

end-aversion bias

end-stage renal disease

end-stopped cell

endocannabinoid

endocochlear potential

endocrine disruptor

endocrine gland

endogenous attention

endogenous cannabinoid (eCB)

endogenous depression

endogenous opioid

endogenous oscillator

endogenous research

endogenous rhythm

endogenous smile

endogenous thyrotoxicosis

endogenous variable

endolymphatic potential

endoplasmic reticulum (ER)

endopsychic structure

endosomatic current

endowment effect

endurance activity

enema addiction

energization theory

energy-flow system

engendering psychology

engineering anthropometry

engineering controls

engineering model

engineering psychology

English as a second language (ESL)

enrichment program

enteric virus infection

entitlement program

entorhinal cortex

entrepreneurship

environmental aesthetics

environmental agnosia

environmental approach

environmental assessment

environmental attitudes

environmental attribution

environmental cognition

environmental constraint

environmental control device

environmental deprivation

environmental design

environmental determinism

environmental education

environmental enrichment

environmental field

environmental hazards

environmental intervention

environmental justice

environmental load theory

environmental manipulation

environmental modifications

environmental noise

environmental press–competence model

environmental psychology

environmental psychophysics

environmental sounds agnosia

environmental stress

environmental stress theory

environmental therapy

environmental tobacco smoke

environmentalism

enzyme induction

enzyme inhibition

epidemic catalepsy

epidemic hysteria

Epidemiologic Catchment Area Survey (ECA Survey)

epidural hematoma

epidural hemorrhage

epigastric reflex

epigenetic landscape

epigenetic theory

epilepsy surgery

epileptic furor

epileptiform seizure

epileptogenic focus

epileptogenic lesion

epiphenomenalism

episodic amnesia

episodic buffer

episodic disorder

episodic memory

epistemic value

epsilon alcoholism

epsilon movement

Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

equal loudness contour

equal opportunity

equal rights amendment (ERA)

equal sense-difference method

equal weighting

equal-and-unequal-cases method

equal-appearing-intervals method

equality of variance

equilibratory sense

equilibrium model of group development

equilibrium potential

equilibrium-point model

equine-assisted psychotherapy (EAP)

equipercentile method

equipment automation

equipment design

equipotentiality

equivalence class

equivalence paradox

equivalency test

equivalent form

equivalent stimulus

equivalent-forms reliability

equivalents method

equivocal death analysis

erectile dysfunction

ergonomic traps

ergot derivative

Erhard Seminar Training (est; EST)

Erichsen’s disease

Ericksonian psychotherapy

Eriksen flankers task

Erikson’s eight stages of psychosocial development

erotic asphyxiation

erotic delusion

erotic feminism

erotic instinct

erotic paranoia

erotic plasticity

erotic pyromania

erotogenic masochism

erotographomania

erotomanic delusion

erotophonophilia

ERP measure of attitudes

ERP measures of intelligence

error of anticipation

error of commission

error of habituation

error of omission

error of refraction

error sum of squares

error-choice technique

errorless learning

erythema multiforme major

erythro- (erythr-)

Esalen Institute

escalating aggression

escalating commitment

escape behavior

escape conditioning

escape from freedom

escape from reality

escape into illness

escape mechanism

escape titration

esophageal speech

ESP forced-choice test

ESP free-response test

esprit de corps

essential amino acid

essential fatty acid

essential hypertension

essential property

essential tremor

establishing operation

Estes–Skinner procedure

esthesiometry (aesthesiometry)

estimating function

estrogen antagonist

estrogen replacement therapy

ethical conflict

ethical consumerism

ethical determinism

ethical dilemma

ethical imperative

ethical judgment

ethical nihilism

ethical principle orientation

ethics committee

ethics of animal research

ethnic cleansing

ethnic identity

ethnic psychology

ethnic research

ethnic socialization

ethnographic approach

ethnolinguistics

ethnomethodology

ethnopsychology

ethnopsychopharmacology

ethologically oriented universal

eudaimonic well-being

eudemonia (eudaemonia)

eudemonism (eudaemonism)

European Federation of Professional Psychologists’ Associations (EFPPA)

European Federation of the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity

eustachian tube

evaluability assessment

evaluation apprehension

evaluation interview

evaluation objective

evaluation research

evaluation utilization

evaluative priming measure

evaluative ratings

evaluative reasoning

evaluator credibility

evenly hovering attention

event history analysis

event-related magnetic field (ERF)

event-related potential (ERP)

everyday creativity

everyday intelligence

everyday racism

evidence-based practice (EBP)

evocative therapy

evoked potential (EP)

evolution of consciousness

evolution of intelligence

evolution of the brain

evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS)

evolutionary aesthetics

evolutionary developmental psychology

evolutionary epistemology

evolutionary psychology

evolutionary theory

evolved mechanism

ex post facto design

ex post facto evaluation

ex-patient club

exact replication

exceptional child

exceptional creativity

exchange relationship

exchange theory

exchangeability

excitation pattern

excitation-transfer theory

excitatory conditioning

excitatory field

excitatory gradient (excitation gradient)

excitatory neurotransmitter

excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP)

excitatory synapse

excitatory threshold

excitatory–inhibitory processes

excitement phase

excitotoxic lesion

exclusion design

excoriation (skin-picking) disorder

exculpatory evidence

executive attention

executive coaching

executive control structure

executive dysfunction

executive functions

executive leadership

executive organ

executive stage

executive stress

exemplar theory

exemplary damages

exemplification

exercise addiction

exercise adherence

exercise intolerance

exercise obsession

exercise psychology

exercise stress test

exercise therapy

exercise–behavior model

exhaustion death

exhaustion delirium

exhaustion stage

exhaustive search

existence, relatedness, and growth theory (ERG theory)

existential analysis

existential anxiety

existential crisis

existential dread

existential intelligence

existential judgment

existential living

existential neurosis

existential phenomenology

existential psychoanalysis

existential psychology

existential psychotherapy

existential vacuum

existential–humanistic therapy

exogenous attention

exogenous depression

exogenous variable

exosomatic method

expanded consciousness

expansion of morbidity

expansive delusion

expectancy effect

expectancy theory

expectancy wave

expectancy-value model

expectation-states theory

expected frequency

experience-dependent process

experience-expectant process

experience-sampling method (ESM)

experiential family therapy

experiential history

experiential knowledge

experiential learning

experiential psychotherapy

experiential subtheory

experiment-wise alpha level

experiment-wise error rate

experimental aesthetics

experimental analysis of behavior

experimental attrition

experimental condition

experimental control

experimental design

experimental epilepsy

experimental ethics

experimental group

experimental hypothesis

experimental manipulation

experimental method

experimental neuropsychology

experimental neurosis

experimental philosophy

experimental psychology

experimental realism

experimental research

experimental treatment

experimental unit

experimental variable

experimenter bias

experimenter drift

experimenter effect

experimenter expectancy effect

expert authority

expert performance

expert testimony

expert–novice differences

expiatory punishment

explained variance

explanatory model

explanatory research

explanatory style

explanatory variable

explicit attitude

explicit attitude measure

explicit behavior

explicit emotion regulation

explicit memory

explicit memory test

explicit prejudice

explicit process

exploitative orientation

exploratory behavior

exploratory data analysis (EDA)

exploratory drive

exploratory factor analysis (EFA)

exploratory procedure

exploratory research

explosive disorder

explosive personality

exponential curve

exponential distribution

exponential function (exp)

exposure and response prevention (ERP; EX/RP)

exposure deafness

exposure therapy

expressed emotion (EE)

expressionism factor

expressive amimia

expressive amusia

expressive aphasia

expressive language

expressive language disorder

expressive suppression

expressive therapy

expressive writing

extended Cox regression model

extended family

extended suicide

extended-family therapy

extended-release preparation

extended-stay review

extension reflex

extensional meaning

extensor motor neuron

extensor posturing

extensor rigidity

extensor thrust

exteriorization

external attribution

external auditory meatus

external boundary

external capsule

external chemical messenger (ECM)

external control

external evaluator

external fertilization

external genitalia

external granular layer

external inequity

external locus of control

external pyramidal layer

external rectus

external reliability

external respiration

external validity

externality effect

externalization

externalizing–internalizing

exteroceptive stimulus

extinction burst

extracellular deposit

extracellular space

extradural hemorrhage

extrafusal fiber

extraneous variable

extrapair mating

extrapsychic conflict

extrapyramidal dyskinesia

extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS)

extrapyramidal tract

extrasensory perception (ESP)

extraspective perspective

extraspectral hue

extrastriate cortex

extrastriate visual area

extraterrestrial kidnapping

extrauterine pregnancy

extraversion (extroversion)

extreme capsule (EmC)

extreme environments

extremely low birth weight (ELBW)

extremity of an attitude

extrinsic eye muscles

extrinsic motivation

extrinsic reinforcement

extrinsic religion

extrinsic reward

eye-movement camera

eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)

eye–hand coordination

eye–voice span

eyelid conditioning

eyewitness memory

eyewitness testimony

Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI)

Eysenck’s dimensions

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