Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors

Dictionary

Eclecticism

 The selection of what seems to be best from various system or theories.

Ego

 In Freudian system that part of the personality which is concerned with reality and which thinks, feels and decides.  

Ego-defence mechanism

 Unconscious process adopted by ego to protest itself from various kinds of anxiety and threatening situation.  

Empirical

 Refers to facts and sensory experience

Empricism

A school which emphasizes that all knowledge originates in experience; Also a methodology that emphasizes data and gives little emphasis on theoretical inference.  

Environment

 A totality of stimuli or events that impinges the organism.

Environmentalism

The principle which dictates that environmental factors are the major determinants of behaviour.

Equivalence belief

 A concept enunciated by Tolman to indicate a state of an organism due to which it behaves towards the subgoals as if thing were goals.  

Erogenous Zones

 Zones or region of the body which are especially sensitive to manipulation. Ethology: A branch of zoology which studies animal behaviour through observation in actual field situation.

Existential Psychology

 A school of personality theories who lay emphasis upon individuals self-understanding. Also the name applies to the structuralism an important school of psychology founded by Titchener because it treated elements of consciousness as existent

Expectancy

 In Tolman’s theory anticipation of a particular relationship between stimulus and response.

Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

 Perceptions that are not based upon input from our sensory receptors. Telepathy and Clairvoyance are included under this