Category: E

Endorphins Ever go for a long jog and get the “runner’s high”? Well, I never have either, but supposedly once a person…

Endocrine System Information travels through our bodies in two forms; as electrical signals, or as chemical signals. The chemical signals are created…

Encounter Groups Popularized in the ’60s and again in the 90’s, encounter groups are gatherings of people (often between 12 to 20)…

Encoding Any information which we sense and subsequently attempt to process, store, and later retrieve must be brought in through one of…

Empiricism The Philosophical school of thought that real knowledge comes from the senses. This formed the basis for the foundation of modern…

Empath Empathy is an ability to understand and feel what another person is feeling, not in a physical sense, but in an…

Emotion Most people have little problem recognizing and identifying when we are having an emotion. However, emotion is one of the most…

Embryo In human development, we call an organism in the early, prenatal stage from about 2 weeks to 2 months after fertilization…

Elizabeth Loftus Elizabeth Loftus is an expert on Human Memory, and is well-known for her work on the Misinformation Effect and False…

Electroencephalogram (EEG) An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a recording of the electrical waves of activity that occur in the brain, and across its…