Environmental cognition

Encoding specificity principle

Empty nest

Empathy

Empirical evidence

Elaboration likelihood model of persuasion (ELM)

Egocentricity

Egocentric orientation

Ecological validity

Ecological approach

Working self-concept

Dyad

Dualism

the concept, discussed by various philosophers since Descartes, that the mind and the brain (i.e. matter) are dual entities which have separate functions, with the mind exerting an influence on the physical workings of the brain that in turn control the muscles of the body.

An encounter between two individuals.

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a temporary structure in memory which is invoked by the requirements of a particular situation and forms the configuration of self-views made salient by ongoing social events.

in environmental psychology, the study of behaviour settings in order to predict their effect on particular individuals.

A way of assembling how valid a measure or test is (i.e. whether it really measures what it is supposed to measure), which is concerned with whether the measure or test is really like its counterpart in the real, everyday world. In other words, whether it is truly realistic or not.

in environmental psychology, the child's understanding of its environment only as it relates to self, and which is characteristic of the sensorimotor stage of development.

The assumption that the entire world centres about the self, and that nothing else exists except for that which directly on he person.

a theory which tries to account for the contradictory findings in the acceptance of persuasive communications by asserting that acceptance of a message can be achieved by two routes, the central and the peripheral, either of which depends on the extent to which the person thinks about and evaluates the message.

recorded observations which together form the basis of psychology as a science and which can be inspected and publicly questioned.

Sharing in someone else’s feelings.

a popular term for that time in an adult's life when they have to come to terms with their sense of loss and loneliness when their children grow up and leave home. encoding the extraction of information from a stimulus in order to form a memory trace.

a proposition that retrieval is a function of the overlap between a memory trace and the information provided at retrieval, which led to the view that recall and recognition are different aspects of the same process.

in environmental psychology, the individual's perception of the real world at molar (i.e. comprehensive) rather than molecular level.

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