The effect that remembering something is easier if a study period is interrupted by other tasks.

(biology) The apparent synchronization of menstrual cycles of women who live together in a community without males.

The induction of early menarche in prepubescent mice due to exposure to the urine of a mature dominant male mouse.

plural of skin effect

The continuous worldwide increase in average scores on intelligence tests.

plural of eureka effect

plural of butterfly effect

The phenomenon whereby a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapour layer which keeps the liquid from boiling rapidly.

(psychology) The effect that a subject has a longer reaction time when naming the colours of words if the words describe colours other than their own (such as "red" printed in blue ink).

(cryptography) A property of some cipher systems in which a small change in the input results in a very large change in the output.