Glossary E

Glossary E

Emergency medical services or EMS refer to services used in responding to the perceived individual need for immediate treatment for physiological, medical, or psychological illness or injury.

Deutsch: Notfallreaktion / Español: Respuesta de emergencia / Português: Resposta de emergência / Français: Réponse d'urgence / Italiano: Risposta di emergenza

Emergency response in the psychology context refers to the immediate and strategic interventions designed to address acute psychological distress and mental health crises. This includes the application of psychological first aid, crisis counseling, and support services to individuals and communities affected by traumatic events, disasters, or other significant stressors.

Emergent literacy refer to the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are presumed to be developmental precursors to conventional forms of reading and writing and the environments that support these developments. They are skills and knowledge about literacy that children acquire before they learn to read, such as knowing how to hold a book and turn the pages, knowing that words and stories are contained in the print on the page, and knowing that the print on signs and labels contains information.

Emergent norm theory is defined as an explanation of collective behavior suggesting that the uniformity in behavior usually observed in collectives is caused by members’ conformity to unique normative standards that develop spontaneously in those groups.

Emergentism is defined as the contention that mental processes emerge from brain processes. The interactionist form of Emergentism claims that once mental states emerge, they can influence subsequent brain activity and thus behavior. The epiphenomenalist form claims that emergent mental states are behaviorally irrelevant. Emergentism, moreover is defined as the view that new knowledge can arise from the interaction of biologically based learning processes and input from the environment. It differs from constructivism in its explicit claim that what emerges from the process of innate structure operating on environmental input can be more than was provided in either the innate structure or the input.

Emerging adulthood refers to a period between late teens and mid- to late twenties (20's) when individuals are not adolescents but are not yet fully adults

EMG is the abbreviation sof Electromyogram which refers to a measurement of muscle tension. The data is collected through sensors. Likewise, EMG is a test that measures the electrical activity of a muscle or a group of muscles. An EMG can detect abnormal electrical muscle activity due to diseases and neuromuscular conditions.

Emil Kraepelin (1855-1925) was a psychiatrist who studied the description and Classification of mental disorders, leading to what we now call the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.