| 1. | Y chromosome | The male chromosome contributed by the father. It produces a male when paired with an X chromosome. Fathers may contribute either an X chromosome or a Y chromosome to their offspring. |
| 2. | Yale studies | Usually refers to the work of Yale University researchers led by Carl Hovland in the 1950s on persuasion and communication, later contradicted by the elaboration likelihood model. |
| 3. | Yantra | a visual pattern used in meditation. |
| 4. | Yea saying | A general tendency on being asked a question , or being asked to do something, to automatically reply in a positive manner. Conversely, nay-saying is the general tendency to automatically More… 0.3 KB |
| 5. | Yellow | the visual experience aroused by radiant energy of a wavelenght of approximately 582 nanometers. |
| 6. | Yellow blue response | A graded potential reaction correlated with the spectral sensivitiy of the retinal receptors. The response at the blue and of the spectrum is negative, or hyperpolarized, and the response at More… 0.4 KB |
| 7. | Yellow dog contract | In labor relations, slang for contracts forbidding unions or stipulating as a condition of employment that the is not, and will not become, a union member, Initially used by railroads in the More… 0.3 KB |
| 8. | Yellow sighted | pertaining to a pathological condition in which there is a heightened sensitivity to yellow. |
| 9. | Yerkes Dodson law | The theory that task performance is an inverted U-shaped function of emotional arousal. Performance is enhanced by moderate (presumedly anxious) arousal conditions and is reduced at low and More… 0.6 KB |
| 10. | Yerkes bridges point scale | an early adaptation of the Binet scale utilizing points instead of months of mental age. |
| 11. | Yerkes-Dodson Law | Is an empirical relationship between arousal and performance, originally developed by psychologists, Robert M. Yerkes and J. D. Dodson in 1908.The law dictates that performance increases More… 2.0 KB |
| 12. | Yezidism | The Yazidi (or Yezidi, Kurdish: ئێزیدی or Êzidî, Arabic: يزيدي or ايزدي, Assyrian/Syriac: ܓ̰ܠܟܝܐ) is a Kurdish religion with ancient Indo-Iranian roots. Yazidis are primarily Kurdish More… 0.7 KB |
| 13. | Yohimbine | Yohimbine, known as the antiquated names quebrachin, aphrodin, corynine, yohimvetol and hydroergotocin, is a purported aphrodisiac.The NIH states that Yohimbine hydrochloride is the More… 3.8 KB |
| 14. | Young adult | According to Erik Erikson's stages of human development, first enumerated in Childhood and Society (1950) a young adult is generally a person between the ages of 20 and 39, whereas an More… 0.5 KB |
| 15. | Youthism | the view that youths possess the same rights as adults. |