| 1. | Saverne Affair | The Saverne Affair (German: Zabern-Affäre || French: Affaire de Saverne) was a crisis of domestic policy which occurred in the German Empire at the end of 1913. It was caused by political More… 0.9 KB |
| 2. | Zeigarnik effect | A finding by a GESTALT PSYCHOLOGIST named Bluma Zeigarnik that subjects are more likely to remember details of experimental tasks during which they were interrupted than those they were More… 0.3 KB |
| 3. | Zeitgeist | The German word for the trends of thought and feeling of culture and taste of a specific time period. |
| 4. | Zen Buddhism | A fusion of Mahayana Buddhism and Taoism, practiced chiefly in China and Japan. It places great importance on moment-by-moment awareness and 'seeing deeply into the nature of More… 0.3 KB |
| 5. | Zener cards | Cards used to conduct experiments for extra-sensory perception (ESP), most often clairvoyance. Perceptual psychologist Karl Zener designed the cards in the early 1930s for experiments More… 3.2 KB |
| 6. | Zero order | pertaining to correlation coefficients computed from data in which neither variable has been held constant. The topical product-moment correlation coefficient is a zero-order correlation. More… 0.2 KB |
| 7. | Zero risk bias | It occurs when individuals value complete elimination of a risk, however small, to a reduction in a greater risk which is a greater reduction but which does not eliminate that risk entirely. More… 1.3 KB |
| 8. | Zero-defects mentality | A zero-defects mentality exists when a command-and-control structure does not tolerate mistakes. This atmosphere is widely acknowledged to be ineffective in military and corporate life. The More… 0.6 KB |
| 9. | Zero-sum game | In GAME THEORY, a situation where one person's losses are another's gains because there is a finite amount to be won. (The gains and losses in the game add up to zero.) This More… 0.3 KB |
| 10. | Ziwo yixiang | A Chinese language translation for the Western psychology term "self image". In China, particularly in mainland China, a positive self image is regarded as an undesirable state. It More… 0.9 KB |
| 11. | Zollner illusion | an illusion of visual space perception in which parallel lines intersected by numerous short diagonal lines slanting in the opposite direction seem to diverge. See also: Illusion |
| 12. | Zolpidem | Zolpidem is a prescription medication used for the short-term treatment of insomnia, as well as some brain disorders. It is a short-acting nonbenzodiazepine hypnotic that potentiates More… 2.1 KB |
| 13. | Zoophobia or animal phobia | May have one of two closely related meanings: a generic term for the class of specific phobias to particular animals, or an irrational fear or even simply dislike of any non-human More… 0.7 KB |
| 14. | Zoroastrianism | Zoroastrianism is the religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to the prophet Zoroaster, after whom the religion is named. The term Zoroastrianism is, in general usage, More… 0.7 KB |
| 15. | Zuclopenthixol | Zuclopenthixol (marketed as Cisordinol, Clopixol or Acuphase) is a typical antipsychotic neuroleptic drug of the thioxanthene group. It mainly acts by antagonism of D1 and D2 dopamine More… 1.2 KB |
| 16. | Zurich school | the name given to the followers of Carl jung, who founded his system in Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 17. | Zygote | a cell formed by the union of two gametes or sex cell. |