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n. A test for determining the separate functioning of the two cerebral hemispheres in which a dru...

n. Title of a novel by Burrhus F. Skinner in which a managing elite control the contingencies of ...

n. The disintegration of a nerve fiber after destruction of an axon segment downstream away from ...

n. Any of a large set of problems asking how to obtain a specific amount of water from three or m...

adj. Of or relating to the theories of James B. Watson, who was an early advocate of the behavior...

n. The distance between peaks of successive waves measured in the direction of propagation in any...

n. The idea that to increase a subjective perception of a stimulus a fi xed amount, the absolute ...

n. The ratio of a just noticeable difference (JND) between two stimuli to the intensity of one of...

n. The idea that there is a constant relationship between the intensity of a stimulus and the amo...

n. (WAIS) A general battery of intelligence or ability tests first derived from the U.S. Army gen...

n. An intelligence test battery devised by David Wechsler using U.S. Army Alpha and Beta tests as...

n. (WIAT) An omnibus measure of educational achievement for children aged 4 to 19 which is intend...

n. (WISC, WISC III) A set of tests for children from ages 6 to 16, devised to predict general cap...

n. Any of several measures of intelligence developed originally by David Wechsler and subsequentl...

n. A collection of memory tests intended to assess memory in persons over the age of 16 for compa...

n. (WPPSI) An intelligence test for children between the ages of 30 months and 7 years, 3 months ...

n. A worldview or general understanding of the universe and the place of humans in the world. Thi...

n. A chronic debilitation with lesions in the brain due to thiamine deficiency, usually occasione...

n. Language disorder characterized by fluent speech, paraphasias (wrongly produced words), and la...

n. Wernicke's area coresponds to the auditory association area involved in language recognition, ...

n. A chronic debilitation from lesions in the brain due to thiamine deficiency, usually occasione...

n. Suicide following the example of the suicide of a public figure which tends to occur in a clus...

n. The off-white tissue of the brain and spinal cord which is given its hue by the myelin sheaths...

n. Sound composed of a random mixture of all frequencies within a range.

n. The synchronization of the estrus cycle of females living in a group which typically occurs on...

n. In Kleinian analysis, the mother or another person or object which serves to satisfy the sexua...

n. An experimental procedure in which a subject attempts to recall all of the parts of a presente...

n. A method of teaching children to read in which they are encouraged to recognize words instead ...

n. The idea that the ways people perceive the world and think is determined by their language(s);...

n. A nonparametric test of the similarity of two distributions in which the differences between p...

n. A nonparametric test of the similarity of two distributions in which the absolute difference b...

n. A boy of about 8–12 years of age who had been living without human contact until discovered by...

n. A rare genetic defect of chromosome 7 which leads to a deficit in the production of elastin, a...

n. A hypothetical mental force which allows a person to overcome temptation and moral laxity and ...

n. 1. A predator that prefers human prey in Algonquin mythology. 2. A culture-bound mental disord...

n. The inferred strategy of subjects in twochoice gaming situations in which they change their ch...

n. The inferred strategy of subjects in twochoice gaming situations in which they keep making the...

 ▶ See WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN

n. A test of problem solving and ability to alter one's mental set, using 128 cards with geometri...

n. An experimental device for testing monkey learning and perception, which consists of a present...

n. In psychoanalysis, the satisfaction, usually in a dream or fantasy, of an unconscious desire d...

n. Any experienced discomfort or bodily imbalance which results from the sudden absence of a drug...

n. Any experienced discomfort or bodily imbalance which results from the sudden absence of a drug...

n. The differences on a dependent variable among members of a group seen as identical or given id...

n. A contrasting of performance on the same measure by an individual on different occasions, usua...

n. An experimental plan in which the performance of the same subjects is contrasted across differ...

n. Either of a pair of small passageways in the developing embryo which will turn into male gonad...

n. Any of numerous measures of personality, pathology, and mental deficiency in which a subject i...

n. A colloquial term for alexia or inability to read or recognize words.

n. A task employed in studies of cognition in which a subject is given a set of letters and asked...

n. An experimental chore in which subjects are given a cue such as cl and asked to supply the mis...

n. Neuropsychological syndrome characterized by severe difficulties in understanding spoken langu...

n. A form of learning disability in which the individual is not able to recognize whole words but...

n. An experimental task in which subjects are given a cue such as cl from a previously learned wo...

n. A collection of spoken words without any apparent meaning or coherent order, often uttered by ...

n. An experimental task in which subjects are given a cue such as cl from a previously learned wo...

n. The faster recognition of letters when presented as part of a word than when presented alone. ...

n. Any group of three or more persons whose primary reason for meeting is to complete a task or s...

n. A formalized tentative theory or proposition subject to further testing and revision.

n. Working memory refers to the temporary storage of information that is currently being used in ...

n. The self as experienced by the individual in a given moment of time, thus acknowledging the va...

n. In psychotherapy, the process of remembering, analyzing and coming to emotional terms with a m...

n. A general term for occupational, industrial, and organizational psychology, as well as ergonom...

▶ See CULTURAL WORLDVIEW

▶ See WECHSLER PRESCHOOL AND PRIMARY SCALE OF INTELLIGENCE

n. Any sensory, motor, or cognitive problem that prevents a person from learning to express langu...

n. A point of view in psychology from 1894 until 1915 which was developed in Würzburg, Germany, b...