WEBER'S EXPERIMENT
an experiment where it was shown that discrimination of weight was a constant fraction of 1/40 between two weights.
WEIGHTED APPLICATION BLANK (WAB)
with regard to personnel selection, a scored application type utilized to attain and assess biographical information. The applicant's reaction to…
WERNICKE'S APHASIA
a loss of the capacity to understand noises or speech , specifically to comprehend or repeat spoken language and to…
WHIPSAWING
1. escalating productivity by joining two or more people or groups on a paired job, frequently with a competitive nature.…
WHOLE-CHANNEL
designating or associated with an approach to teaching wherein data is presented utilizing techniques which due all the possible senses.
WILL TO MEANING
the need to locate an appropriate connotation and reason for one's life. Will to meaning is the premise and basic…
WITHDRAWAL REACTION
an extreme type of social withdrawal which , at times, takes place in serious cases of major depressive episode. 2.…
WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT (WLM) 1
a social movement, taken from formative women's' social activism, which came into presence within the late 1960's and lobbied for…
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.