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Efficient cause

Efficient cause is a term which according to Aristotle is the force that transforms a thing.

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Effort justification

Effort justification is creating a conflict between attitudes and behavior when people make great efforts to achieve a relatively modest goal. Effort justification is the finding that when people suffer or work hard or make sacrifices, they will try to convince themselves that it is worthwhile

Effort justification paradigm

Effort justification paradigm refers to a research methodology used to test Dissonance theory, which arouses dissonance by getting people to invest time or energy to achieve a goal that may not be worthwhile

Effortful control

Effortful control refers to a child's ability to suppress a dominant response and perform a sub-dominant response instead. Moreover, Effortful control is referrring to the temperamental attribute that reflects one’s ability to focus and/or shift attention as called for by the situation and to suppress dominant or inappropriate responses in favor of those more appropriate for the situation

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Effortful processes

Effortful processes is defined as cognitive processes that consume some of the information-processing system 's limited capacity and are hypothesized to: (1) be available to conscious awareness, (2) interfere with the execution of other processes, (3) improve with practice, and (4) be influenced by individual differences in intelligence, motivation, or education Contrast with Automatic processes.

Effortful processing

Effortful processing that which requires all the available attentional capacity when processing information.

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EFT

EFT is the abbreviations of Emotionally focused couples therapy which refers to a form of couples therapy that is based on the assumption that marital distress results from negative a

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Egalitarian family

Deutsch: Egalitäre Familie / Español: Familia igualitaria / Português: Família igualitária / Français: Famille égalitaire / Italiano: Famiglia egualitaria /

An Egalitarian family (also Equalitarian family) is defined as a family in which both father and mother have equal authority and dominance.

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