Psychology

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• emic approach

  the emic approach to studying human culture focuses on the members of the culture being studied. their words, perceptions, and beliefs are the main sources of information used to understand the culture.
• emotional regulation

  a person’s ability to effectively manage and respond to an emotional experience.
• emotional sensitivity

  emotional sensitivity when individuals experience emotions more intensely than others.
• emotive focused therapy

  emotion-focused therapy (eft) is a therapeutic approach based on the premise that emotions are key to identity.
• empirical research

  empirical research is research that is based on observation and measurement of phenomena, as directly experienced by the researcher.
• empirically

  based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.
• encopresis

  encopresis or faecal incontinence is defined as the involuntary passing of stool into inappropriate places such as the underwear in children older than four years of age.
• epidemiology

  epidemiology is the study of the determinants, occurrence, and distribution of health and disease in a defined population.
• epistemological idea

  epistemology is the study of knowledge. three epistemological factors that contribute to knowledge acquisition are truth, belief and justification.
• Erik Erikson’s stages

  Erikson maintained that personality develops in a predetermined order through eight stages of psychosocial development, from infancy to adulthood.
• erogenous zone

  an erogenous zone is characterized as an area of the body that is particularly sensitive to stimulation.
• ethical

  ethics are defined as the standards that direct the conduct of its professional members.
• ethical implication

  ethical implications can include, but are not limited to: risk of distress, loss, adverse impact, injury or psychological or other harm to any individual (participant / researcher / bysta nder) or participant group.
• ethical obligation

  responsibilities to take all possible steps to avoid harm to their clients due to the therapeutic process.
• ethnic

  relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background.
• ethnic constancy

  ethnic constancy, the belief that a person cannot change ethnicity, is an important component of ethnic essentialism, the conviction that members of ethnic groups share an immutable underlying essence.
• ethnic knowledge

  knowledge or practices passed down from generation to generation that form part of the traditions or heritage of indigenous communities.
• ethnography

  ethnography is a qualitative method for collecting data often used in the social and behavioral sciences.
• etic approach

  an etic approach looks at behaviour from the outside of a given culture, and attempts to find trends that can be generalised, universal behaviours.
• eurocentric approach

  eurocentrism has been variously defined as an attitude, conceptual apparatus, or set of empirical beliefs that frame europe as the primary engine and architect of world history, the bearer of universal values and reason, and the pinnacle and therefore model of progress and development.
• eurocentric view of psychology

  the eurocentric worldview is based on western values and characteristics such as individualism, competitiveness, dualistic thinking, a belief in control over nature, hierarchical decision-making processes.
• eurocentric

  focusing on european culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world / implicitly regarding european culture as pre-eminent.
• evidence-based practice

  evidence-based practice applies research-based treatments that are tailored to meet people's needs, preferences, and cultural expectations.
• existential guilt

  not living to your potential
• existential psychopathology

  existential psychopathology offers a unique perspective on mental health by focusing on the fundamental aspects of human existence and how they relate to psychological well-being. it examines how individuals experience their existence, including feelings of meaninglessness, isolation, and anxiety about death. this approach emphasizes the subjective experience of individuals and how they relate to fundamental human concerns.