WILLOWBROOK CONSENT JUDGMENT
a landmark agreement in 1975 between agencies, mothers and fathers, and friends of the court and New York, indicating the…
WILLIE M CLASS ACTION
a 1979 class action lawsuit in North Carolina, settled out of court, which mandated a special category of kids of…
WINNER EFFECT
the escalated probability that a person will win aggressive challenges as an outcome of having won prior challenges. The might…
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-DESTRUCTIVENESS
noun. with regard to the psychoanalysis of Erich Fromm, a method of correlation based upon withdrawal and isolation from other…
WILLIAMS V FLORIDA
an influential 1970 United States Supreme Court judgment that juries of fewer than 12 individuals may be constitutionally permissible. The…
WIN-STAY, LOSE-SHIFT STRATEGY
with regard to discrimination learning, a cognitive or behavioral method wherein a living being persists to render the same reaction…
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…
WOMAN-CENTERED PSYCHOLOGY
an approach to psychology which stresses the psychological, physical, and social encounters which are especially pertinent to females.
WOBBLE SWITCH
an interface between a tool and the utilizer which is alike to a joystick. The switch is activated whenever the…
WITHDRAWAL DYSKINESIA
distortion or skewing of deliberate motions correlated to withdrawal from drugs or other agents.
WOODCOCK-JOHNSON PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL BATTERY
an evaluation, now in its third edition, which gauges mental capacity and educational achievement in kids, youths, or adults. The…
WITHERSPOON EXCLUDABLES
prospective jurors who are so against the death penalty that they're not willing to consider it as an choice for…
WILL-DO FACTORS
aspects adding to a worker's performance on a task which are creditable to their willingness instead of to their insight…
WOLMAN'S DISEASE
a hereditary metabolic disorder marked by an insufficiency of acid lipase, an enzyme required to synthesize lipid molecules. The adrenal…
WORD APPROXIMATION
a speech disruption wherein traditional words are utilized in untraditional or improper manners as in metonymy, or new but comprehensible…
WITCH DOCTOR
with regard to a multitude of traditional cultures, an individual thought to have magical powers utilizes these primarily to cure…
WHITTEN EFFECT
the impact of chemical correspondence in eliciting ovulation. With regard to some rodent species, females ovulate whenever exposed to scents…