Category: E

A type of reaction designed to maintain a person’s feelings of adequacy and worth rather than to cope directly with the stress situation, usually unconscious and reality distorting.  

To cast out as an indigestible food matter.  

Curriculum planning in which the learner is administered to in accordance to his or her needs.  

The circular stroking movement used in massage of the abdomen during labor in the Lamaze method. A form of massage where the skin is stroked in one direction to increase blood flow. Rhythmic, firm or gentle stroking, as in massage. Effleurage of the abdomen is commonly used in the Lamaze method of childbirth. A form…

Efferent nerve. A neuron whose axon carries motor impulses away from the brain or spinal cord.  

Nerves that carry messages to the effectors: afferent nerves. A peripheral nerve that conveys impulses from the central nervous system to the peripheral nerves; opposite of an afferent nerve. A nerve that carries motor impulses from the central nervous system to an effector. These impulses may be excitatory, causing muscle contraction or glandular secretion, or…

A person’s dynamism. The degree to which diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic or other action or actions achieves the intended result. Effectiveness requires a consideration of outcomes to measure. It does not require consideration of the cost of the action, although one way of comparing the effectiveness of actions with the same or similar intended results is…

A movement to improve teaching performance based on the outcomes of educational research. Also referred to as effective schools.  

A stimulus that affects an appropriate receptor in detectable strength, distal stimulus, proximal stimulus.  

That part of the external environment to which a person is responding, noneffective environment.