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.
WAKING CENTER
an obsolete terminology for a region of the posterior hypothalamus previously considered to regulate waking from sleep. It has now…
WAVE-INTERFERENCE PATTERNS
with regard to holographic photography, trends formed by light waves which meet from many angles: These can be documented on…
WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN (WISC)
an intelligence test cultivated originally in 1949 and generalized for kids from 6 years old to 16 years 11 months.…
WEIGHTED TEST
a test within a test battery which has been multiplied by a weight other than 1.0 prior to scores on…
WERTHEIMER, MAX
A German-American psychologist. Wertheimer attained his doctorate at the University of Wurzburg, studying with Oswald Kiilpe and Karl Marbe. Following…