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…
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…
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…
WAVE OF EXCITATION
with regard to physiology, the promulgation of electrical action via tissue.
WECHSLER ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE (WAIS)
an intelligence test for people from 16 years to 89 years. An alteration and substitution of the Wechsler-Belle-Vue intelligence scale,…
WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES
a variation on the ordinary least squares processes utilized within the general linear design wherein the variants are weighted by…
WHITE COMMISSURE
a group of myelinated fibers, both motor and sensory, which passes from one side of the spinal cord to the…
WHOOPING COUGH
a very contagious bacterial infection which impacts the respiratory tract spanning from the nasopharynx to the bronchioles. It is marked…
WILL-DO FACTORS
aspects adding to a worker's performance on a task which are creditable to their willingness instead of to their insight…
WITHERSPOON EXCLUDABLES
prospective jurors who are so against the death penalty that they're not willing to consider it as an choice for…
WORD APPROXIMATION
a speech disruption wherein traditional words are utilized in untraditional or improper manners as in metonymy, or new but comprehensible…
WORK ETHIC
an importance or overstressing placed on the significance of work or other types of effortful activity as a social, psychological,…
WORKING MOTHER
a mother who is employed somewhere other than the home, specifically one with young or school-aged kids.