WHITE LIGHT
light which is a combination of all of the visible wavelengths within the spectrum. White light can additionally be generated…
WIDE RANGE ACHIEVEMENT TEST (WRAT)
a principle evaluation instrument utilized to gain a fast, correct evaluation of reading, math, and spelling abilities. The newest rendition,…
WILLIAMS V FLORIDA
an influential 1970 United States Supreme Court judgment that juries of fewer than 12 individuals may be constitutionally permissible. The…
WITHIN-DIMENSION ATTITUDE CONSISTENCY
the degree to which particles of outlook-pertaining knowledge correlated to a sole underlying dimension are evaluative aligned with each other.
WORD ATTACK
the technique utilized to synthesize an unfamiliar term into its fundamental phonemes.
WORK FUNCTION SCALE
with regard to functional job analysis, any of the facets on which tasks are scored to ascertain the level of…
WORKING THROUGH
1. with regard to psychotherapy, the procedure in which patients identify, explore, and cope with psychological problems, on both an…
WRAPAROUND SERVICES
a philosophy of care and correlated services which are inclusive of a planning procedure involving concerned relatives, central person, and…
WAKING DREAM
1. a metaphor for a vision. 2. a dream-like occurrence happening within the ganzfeild. 3. a dream process in the…
WAVELENGTH
noun. the measured space between consecutive peaks in a wave movement. The is equivalent to the velocity of propagation of…
WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE (WMS)
a group of memory tests, initially printed in 1945, which evaluates verbal and non-verbal memory in elder adolescents and adults…
WERTHER SYNDROME
cluster suicides elicited by the suicide of a widely-recognized or popular figure whose demise is supplied with significant media coverage.…
WHITE MATTER
portions of the nervous system made up of nerve fibers which are encaged in a myelin sheath, that renders a…
WIDEBAND PROCEDURES
testing and gauging methods which are fairly more subjective in nature. Wideband processes commonly produce a broader span of data…
WILLIE M CLASS ACTION
a 1979 class action lawsuit in North Carolina, settled out of court, which mandated a special category of kids of…
WITHIN-GROUP VARIANCE
the variance among identically remedied people in the same group or populace. Commonly referred to as intraclass variance.
WORD COUNT
a presumption of the rate of occurrence or the popularity of particular words within a specific sample of spoken or…
WORK GROUP
any set of individuals whose main objective is to carry out a group of designated jobs. The level to which…