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Egocentrism According to Jean Piaget and his theory of cognitive development, egocentrism is an inability on the part of a child in…

Ego Strength We all have an ego. And your ego has the ability to deal with reality and stress differently than my…

Ego According to Freud, the ego is the part of the personality that helps us deal with reality by mediating between the…

Effortful Processing Effortful processing is just as the name implies; learning or storing (encoding) that requires attention and effort. We have the…

Effect Size This is a statistical term that refers to the size of a relationship between two variables. Sometimes effect size is…

Edward Tolman Edward Tolman (1886 – 1959) was a Cognitive Behaviorist who believed that animals had the ability to learn things that…

Edward Thorndike Edward Thorndike (1874 – 1949) is known for his work on Learning Theory. He studied how cats learned to escape…

Ecological Validity Ecological Validity is the degree to which the behaviors observed and recorded in a study reflect the behaviors that actually…

Echoic Memory Humans remember sounds and words in slightly different ways. Memory for sound is referred to as echoic memories, which can…

Dysthymia Dysthymia is a chronic type of depression that occurs on most days and lasts for a period of 2 or more…