WUNDT, WILHELM MAX, (1832— 1920)
Wundt, the founder of experimental psychology, was bom near Mannheim, the son of a Lutheran minister. After years of tutoring…
WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS
Mental and physical symptoms experienced when drugs are unavailable to individuals who have become addicted or habituated to them.These symptoms…
WERNICKE’S SYNDROME
A brain disorder caused by a deficiency of vitamins, particularly thiamine and niacin; first described in 1881 by the German…
WERTHEIMER, MAX (1880-1943)
Wertheimer, originator of the Gestalt theory, was born in Prague, studied law at the universitythen became interested in psychology and…
WHITE, WILLIAM ALANSON (1870- 1937)
White, a leading figure in the development of American psychiatry, was bom in New York City and received his medical…
WITHDRAWAL
A defensive reaction consisting of retreat from threatening situations and, in its pathological form, retreat from reality as a whole.There…
WAKING DREAM
1. a metaphor for a vision. 2. a dream-like occurrence happening within the ganzfeild. 3. a dream process in the…
WAVELENGTH
noun. the measured space between consecutive peaks in a wave movement. The is equivalent to the velocity of propagation of…
WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE (WMS)
a group of memory tests, initially printed in 1945, which evaluates verbal and non-verbal memory in elder adolescents and adults…
WERTHER SYNDROME
cluster suicides elicited by the suicide of a widely-recognized or popular figure whose demise is supplied with significant media coverage.…
WHITE MATTER
portions of the nervous system made up of nerve fibers which are encaged in a myelin sheath, that renders a…
WIDEBAND PROCEDURES
testing and gauging methods which are fairly more subjective in nature. Wideband processes commonly produce a broader span of data…
WILLIE M CLASS ACTION
a 1979 class action lawsuit in North Carolina, settled out of court, which mandated a special category of kids of…
WITHIN-GROUP VARIANCE
the variance among identically remedied people in the same group or populace. Commonly referred to as intraclass variance.
WORD COUNT
a presumption of the rate of occurrence or the popularity of particular words within a specific sample of spoken or…
WORK GROUP
any set of individuals whose main objective is to carry out a group of designated jobs. The level to which…
WORK-LIMIT TEST
an examination wherein all persons taking the exam perform the same job with grades based upon the time needed for…
WRITER'S BLOCK
limited capacity to begin or persist in working on an section or article of writing. The trouble is credited mainly…