WHISKER BARREL
a barrel-shaped line of neurons within the somatosensory region of some animals which are recipient to data from a specific…
WHOLE-WORD METHOD
a largely utilized technique of language and reading direction based upon the concept that students ought to grasp the connotation…
WILL TO SURVIVE
the determination to live regardless of an adverse scenario or extreme situations. Commonly referred to as will to live.
WITHDRAWING RESPONSE
with regard to behavioral psychology, any actions modeled to stop contact with a noxious stimulant.
WOODWORTH, ROBERT SESSIONS
American psychologist. Woodworth earned his doctorate in psychology from Columbia University, studying with James McKeen Cattell. He became a staff…
WORK DECREMENT
1. a decrease in the size or velocity of exertion on a job. 2. with regard to an experiment, a…
WORKING MEMORY INDEX
an index utilized in the Wechsler memory scale in addition to the Wechsler intelligence examinations which assess the capacity to…
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,…