ZOMBIE ARGUMENT
a philosophical debate which centers on the trouble of differentiating conscious entities from non-conscious entities which are capable of carrying…
ZEN BUDDHISM
a Japanese school of Buddhism, extending back to the sixth century ce, wherein enlightenment was sought via direct, intuitive experience…
ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT
with regard to Levvygotsky's sociocultural theory, the difference between a kid's actual degree of capacity and the degree of capacity…
ZUNG SELF-RATING DEPRESSION SCALE (SDS)
a widely utilized adult self-report depression-screening tool modeled to gauge the severity of depressive or mood-associated indicators. It is additionally…
ZONE OF COMPARISON TEST
a technique of placing questions in a control question test to encourage objective study of physiological reactions on polygraph charts…
ZOOPHARMACOGNOSY
noun. the capacity of non-human animals to choose plants and their portions for medicinal reasons to lower fevers or rid…
ZWAARDEMAKER SMELL SYSTEM
a system for categorizing scent qualities based upon a scheme initially cultivated by Carolus Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist. In accordance…
ZOLLNER ILLUSION
a visual illusion wherein parallel lines seem to diverge whenever one of them is intersected by short diagonal lines slanted…
ZWAARDEMAKER OLFACTOMETER
an formative olfactom-etkr consisting of a sole glass tube open at each end. One end was placed into a nostril,…
ZURICH SCHOOL
a team of psychoanalysts who were formative followers of Carl Jung in Zurich, in contrast to the Viennese school of…
WITHDRAWAL REACTION
an extreme type of social withdrawal which , at times, takes place in serious cases of major depressive episode. 2.…
WOLFFIAN DUCT
an elementary duct system within the embryo which grows into structures of the male reproductive system. With regard to the…