WHOLE-WORD METHOD
a largely utilized technique of language and reading direction based upon the concept that students ought to grasp the connotation…
WHOLE-LANGUAGE APPROACH
a top-down approach to teaching reading which stresses the reader's active creation of connotation.
WIDOW-TO-WIDOW PROGRAM
a peer support program centered on mourning, death, and grief, thought to be the first of its type and acting…
WHITEOUT SYNDROME
a psychosis happening in people who are exposed to the same white, poor surroundings for extended periods of time.
WILKS'S LAMBDA
a statistic based upon the difference in mean vectors across K samples utilized to test hypotheses about group mean vector…
WHOLE-CHANNEL
designating or associated with an approach to teaching wherein data is presented utilizing techniques which due all the possible senses.
WIFE SWAPPING
a type of group sex wherein two or more married pairs trade partners by mutual agreement to have sex. The…
WILCOXON TEST
a non-parametric test of the difference in distribution for paired teams of research parties or for repetitively viewed parties.
WILLIAMS V FLORIDA
an influential 1970 United States Supreme Court judgment that juries of fewer than 12 individuals may be constitutionally permissible. The…
WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE
a group program wherein demanding outdoor adventures are taken for prolonged periods to cultivate bettered self-effectiveness, willingness, and social abilities…
WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST (WCST)
a test which necessitates that involved parties deduce from feedback how to organize a sequence of cards depicting many different…
WILL THERAPY
a type of psychotherapy based upon the theory that neuroses can be veered away from or overcome by asserting one's…
WHOLE REPORT
a technique utilized within analyses of iconic memory wherein the involved party tries to remember all of the displayed data.
WITHDRAWAL DYSKINESIA
distortion or skewing of deliberate motions correlated to withdrawal from drugs or other agents.
WIN-LOSE DYNAMIC
the conflict-advocating procedures which happen in scenarios whose competitive reward structures elicit involved parties to feel they can only succeed…
WILD BOY OF AVEYRON
an alleged feral child, unsocialized and unable to read or write, found dwelling in the woods near Aveyron around 1800…