Glossary E
Glossary E
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.
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.
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.
Environment ("Nurture") is defined as the sum of all external conditions affecting development, including especially the effects of learning.
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.
Environmental assessment scales refer to measures of key environmental dimensions hypothesized to influence behavior.
Environmental crimes refer to violations of the criminal law which, although typically committed by businesses or by business officials, may also be committed by other persons or organizational entities, and which damage some protected or otherwise significant aspect of the natural environment.