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…
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…
WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS
Mental and physical symptoms experienced when drugs are unavailable to individuals who have become addicted or habituated to them.These symptoms…
WORKING HYPOTHESIS
a conditional hypothesis readily exposed to revising upon additional experimentation.
WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)
a universal system of warehouses of data about people and establishments which can be entered upon by computer users via…
WYATT V STICKNEY DECISION
a 1972 Alabama District Court judgment mandating that the state couldn't retain people against their will in hospital facilities without…
WAIST-TO-HIPS RATIO
the circumference of the waist divided by the circumference of the hips. This ratio is frequently utilized in cross-cultural analyses…
WAR PSYCHOLOGY
the employment of psychological standards and techniques to military situations and operatives during wartime. It encompasses human operations in a…
WATERSHED ZONE
a zone which resides between the vascular distribution regions of two arteries. Even though the cerebral cortex is sufficiently supplied…
WEBER'S EXPERIMENT
an experiment where it was shown that discrimination of weight was a constant fraction of 1/40 between two weights.
WEIGHTED APPLICATION BLANK (WAB)
with regard to personnel selection, a scored application type utilized to attain and assess biographical information. The applicant's reaction to…
WERNICKE'S APHASIA
a loss of the capacity to understand noises or speech , specifically to comprehend or repeat spoken language and to…
WHIPSAWING
1. escalating productivity by joining two or more people or groups on a paired job, frequently with a competitive nature.…
WHOLE-CHANNEL
designating or associated with an approach to teaching wherein data is presented utilizing techniques which due all the possible senses.
WILL TO MEANING
the need to locate an appropriate connotation and reason for one's life. Will to meaning is the premise and basic…
WITHDRAWAL REACTION
an extreme type of social withdrawal which , at times, takes place in serious cases of major depressive episode. 2.…
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…