WUNDT, WILHELM MAX
A German psychologist and physiologist. Wundt earned his medical degree and his second doctorate studying under Johannes Muller. He then…
WAINWRIGHT V WITT
a 1985 case resulting in a United States Supreme Court judgment which escalated the prosecution
WANDERLUST
noun. a propensity or drive to wander or roam with not intended destination or purpose.
WATERSHED INFARCTION
necrosis of neurons because of disturbance of regular blood flow to a region residing at the periphery of a vascular…
WEBER-FECHNER LAW
the law postulating that to escalate the severity of a sensation within arithmetical progression, the severity of the stimulant must…
WEIGHT WATCHERS
a largely accessible weight loss and management program which is inclusive of practices of both support and self-help groups.
WERNICKE-KORSAKOFF SYNDROME
a syndrome stemming from persistent alcoholism or nutritional deficiencies, correlated to deficiency of vitamin B. The syndrome is marked by…
WHOLE REPORT
a technique utilized within analyses of iconic memory wherein the involved party tries to remember all of the displayed data.
WILL THERAPY
a type of psychotherapy based upon the theory that neuroses can be veered away from or overcome by asserting one's…
WITHDRAWAL DYSKINESIA
distortion or skewing of deliberate motions correlated to withdrawal from drugs or other agents.
WOMB FANTASY
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, the fallacy of going back into the womb or living within the womb, generally shown…
WORD-RECOGNITION THRESHOLD
with regard to analyses involving word recognition, the smallest quantity of time which a term must be shown for an…
WORKING FORWARD
a problem-resolution method wherein the solver persists from the preliminary circumstances to locate a passage to the favored objective state.
WORLD REGIONS
with regard to the thought of Martin Heidegger, a German philosopher, three separate facets of an individual's lived encounter marked…
WURZBURG SCHOOL
a school of psychology cultivated at the end of the nineteenth century by Oswald Kiilpe, a German psychologist, and his…