WORKING HYPOTHESIS
a conditional hypothesis readily exposed to revising upon additional experimentation.
WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)
a universal system of warehouses of data about people and establishments which can be entered upon by computer users via…
WYATT V STICKNEY DECISION
a 1972 Alabama District Court judgment mandating that the state couldn't retain people against their will in hospital facilities without…
WAITING-LIST CONTROL GROUP
a management group, generally randomized, which will be recipient to the identical intervention chosen to the experimental groups but at…
WAREHOUSING
noun. the practice of restraining people with cognitive disorders to large facilities for prolonged, frequently lifelong, custodial care. This colloquial…
WATSON, JOHN BROADUS
an American psychologist. Watson attained his PhD from the University of Chicago, where he studied biology and neurophysiology, in addition…
WEBER'S LAW
the law postulating that the strength and intensity required to identify modifications within a stimulant is correlated to the absolute…
WEIGHTED ITEM
an object on a test or scale which is multiplied by a weight aside from 1.0 prior to ratings on…
WERNICKE'S AREA
an area within the posterior temporal gyrus of the left hemisphere of the brain's cerebrum, consisting of nerve tissue correlated…
WHOLE-LANGUAGE APPROACH
a top-down approach to teaching reading which stresses the reader's active creation of connotation.
WILL TO POWER 1
with regard to the individual psychology of Alfred Adler, the commitment to aim for superiority and dominance, which he argued…
WITHDRAWAL-DESTRUCTIVENESS
noun. with regard to the psychoanalysis of Erich Fromm, a method of correlation based upon withdrawal and isolation from other…
WOODCOCK-JOHNSON PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL BATTERY
an evaluation, now in its third edition, which gauges mental capacity and educational achievement in kids, youths, or adults. The…
WORD-SUPERIORITY EFFECT (WSE)
the discovery which, when presented for a short period of time, one letter is more easily recognized within the context…
WORKING MEMORY
a multi-component design of short-term or active memory which has a phonological loop to preserve verbal data, a visuospatial scratchpad…
WAITING-LIST PHENOMENON
with regard to psychotherapy and counseling, the uncommon event of a "cure