WOLF CHILDREN
two girls who were rumored to be reared by wolves in India and who took on all the significant lupine…
WOMB FANTASY
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, the fallacy of going back into the womb or living within the womb, generally shown…
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…
WORD COUNT
a presumption of the rate of occurrence or the popularity of particular words within a specific sample of spoken or…
WOBBLE SWITCH
an interface between a tool and the utilizer which is alike to a joystick. The switch is activated whenever the…
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…
WOODCOCK-JOHNSON PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL BATTERY
an evaluation, now in its third edition, which gauges mental capacity and educational achievement in kids, youths, or adults. The…
WORD-SUPERIORITY EFFECT (WSE)
the discovery which, when presented for a short period of time, one letter is more easily recognized within the context…
WORD-FREQUENCY STUDY
a examination wherein the frequency of to-be-recalled words is manipulated to explore the impact of this variant on later memory.…
WORD APPROXIMATION
a speech disruption wherein traditional words are utilized in untraditional or improper manners as in metonymy, or new but comprehensible…
WORK GROUP
any set of individuals whose main objective is to carry out a group of designated jobs. The level to which…
WORD OF MOUTH
the unofficial channel of correspondence wherein facts, rumors, opinions, and gossip are conveyed by speaking from one individual to another.
WITZELSUCHT
noun. a form of joking mania, marked by a morbid drive to tell bad jokes and stories lacking meaning, which…
WORK REHABILITATION CENTER
an institution wherein workers who have been hurt recover and ready for going back to work. Rehabilitation efforts are centered…
WORK DECREMENT
1. a decrease in the size or velocity of exertion on a job. 2. with regard to an experiment, a…
WOODWORTH, ROBERT SESSIONS
American psychologist. Woodworth earned his doctorate in psychology from Columbia University, studying with James McKeen Cattell. He became a staff…
WILL TO MEANING
the need to locate an appropriate connotation and reason for one's life. Will to meaning is the premise and basic…