Category: E

Exogenous encompasses influences, factors, or stimuli lying outside the individual or system, impacting behavior, cognition, or development. In psychology, every emotion or thought that is an outcome of some external stimuli exerted on a person is termed an exogenous variable. For instance, environmental stressors such as sirens, primary social factors, or even social events such […]

Euphoria is characterized by an exceptional sense of happiness, well-being, and pleasure, combined with invigorated energy and optimistic feelings. Euphoria can occur to psychological stimuli, such as attaining an important objective, or to neurochemical interactions caused by exercises, some activities, and/or substances. Euphoria results from the stimulation of the brain’s reward systems, especially those that […]

The human capacity for empathy involves the ability to both understand and share the feelings of others. It encompasses cognitive and affective forms of empathy. For instance, witnessing a friend in distress may lead someone to recognize the sadness and also evoke some pity. Empathy is linked with positive relational outcomes which include social connection, […]

In psychology, elation describes an emotional condition wherein an individual experiences an extreme high state of feeling a multiplicity of emotions, including happiness, joy, enthusiasm, and an uplifted mood. Elation is not to be confused with simple states of happiness. The feeling of elation is accompanied with an energized and excited state, for instance, the […]

In psychology, an episodic memory is a form of personal long-term memory involving personal events, including unique memories of people, times, places, and emotions of the related events. Unlike episodic memory, semantic memory is objective and generalized. Personal recollections of one’s life story form the core of an episodic memory, such as reminiscences about one’s […]

In psychology, an ethical dilemma occurs when a counselor, therapist, or a researcher, has to make a decision with two or more conflicting moral principles which makes it unclear to choose which decision to make. In a situation like this, adhering to one ethical principle means breaching another ethical principle and this creates an imbalance. […]

An experiment is a psychological study used to explain cause and effect relationships. It is the technique of carefully varying conditions of an experiment so that the effects of changing one of the factors (independent variable) on another of the factors (dependent variable) can be observed. For example, a researcher may vary the amount of […]