Glossary E

Entremetteuse is defined, historically as a woman who procures sexual partners for men or one who taught men about love-making.

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Deutsch: Unternehmertum / Español: Emprendimiento / Português: Empreendedorismo / Français: Entrepreneuriat / Italiano: Imprenditorialità

Entrepreneurship in the context of psychology refers to the mental processes, personality traits, behaviours, and motivations that drive individuals to identify opportunities, take risks, and create new ventures or solutions. It encompasses a blend of cognitive, emotional, and social factors that influence entrepreneurial thinking and decision-making.

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Entropy principle refers to a tendency toward balance or equilibrium within the personality; the ideal is an equal distribution of psychic energy over all structures of the personality.

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Enuresis refers to a diagnosis given to children over 5 years of age who wet the bed or their clothes at least twice a week for 3 months. Enuresis means bed wetting.

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Envelope of the traveling wave refers to a curve that indicates the maximum displacement at each point along the basilar membrane caused by a traveling wave.

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Deutsch: Umwelt / Español: Entorno / Português: Ambiente / Français: Environnement / Italiano: Ambiente /

Our Environment is the complex of factors (those of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere) that act upon an organism or ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival.

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Environment ("Nurture") is defined as the sum of all external conditions affecting development, including especially the effects of learning.

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Environmental assessment is defined as the measurement and analysis of the effects an environment has on the behavior and perceptions of people within that environment.