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 geometric shapes in varying...
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 by his father’s assistant,...
WERNICKE'S ENCEPHALOPATHY
a neurological disorder elicited by a deficiency of vitamin B. The principal indicators are confusion, occulomotor irregularities, and ataxia. The disorder is most often...
WILL DISTURBANCE
an insufficiency or absence of motivation identified by Eugen Bleuler, a Swiss psychiatrist, as a fundamental indicator of schizophrenia. The individual might seem apathetic...
WORKING HYPOTHESIS
a conditional hypothesis readily exposed to revising upon additional experimentation.
WHISKER BARREL
a barrel-shaped line of neurons within the somatosensory region of some animals which are recipient to data from a specific whisker.
WEAK METHODS
1. problem-resolution methods based upon general standards instead of particular, field-based insight. These techniques can be employed toward a vast multitude of dilemmas, but...
WAVE OF EXCITATION
with regard to physiology, the promulgation of electrical action via tissue.
WORKING FORWARD
a problem-resolution method wherein the solver persists from the preliminary circumstances to locate a passage to the favored objective state.
WORKING MOTHER
a mother who is employed somewhere other than the home, specifically one with young or school-aged kids.