YIN AND YANG
with regard to Chinese philosophy, the two converse, but complementary aspects of the basic standards overseeing the world. Initially, the…
ZIPF'S LAW
with regard to speaking language, the viewpoint that the length of words within any language is inversely associated to how…
ZOOMORPHISM
noun. 1. the crediting of animal qualities to humans, inanimate items, or deities. 2. the utilization of animal psychology or…
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…
ZAR (ZAAR)
noun. a culturally-rooted syndrome, typical in Middle Eastern and North African societies, which is credited to spirit possession. Happening most…
ZURICH SCHOOL
a team of psychoanalysts who were formative followers of Carl Jung in Zurich, in contrast to the Viennese school of…
ZUCLOPENTHIXOL
noun. a conventional antipsychotic of the thioxanthene class. Side effects are inclusive of sedation, dystonia, and neuromuscular rigidity, and it's…
ZONE OF POTENTIALITY
the wide array of a pupil's capacity for development, growth, or excellence within a specific skill or subject region.
ZYGOMATICUS
the group of muscles, innervated by the facial nerve, which initiates the motion of the upper lip upward, backward, and…
ZYGOTE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER (ZIFT)
a type of in vitro fertilization wherein sperm and ova are combined in a laboratory container like a petri dish,…
ZWAARDEMAKER OLFACTOMETER
an formative olfactom-etkr consisting of a sole glass tube open at each end. One end was placed into a nostril,…
ZONE OF COMPARISON TEST
a technique of placing questions in a control question test to encourage objective study of physiological reactions on polygraph charts…
WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT (WLM) 1
a social movement, taken from formative women's' social activism, which came into presence within the late 1960's and lobbied for…
WORD-FORM DYSLEXIA
a form of acquired dyslexia marked by the incapacity to identify and read whole words, that can be read only…
VARIABLE-INTERVAL REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE (VI SCHEDULE)
with regard to free-operant conditioning, a form of interval reinforcement wherein such displayed for the first reaction following the passing…