| 1. | Awake | Awake refers to the state of being conscious and can be understood in biological terms as the behavioral manifestation of the metabolic state of catabolism. It is the daily recurring period More… 2.0 KB |
| 2. | Wahdat ul Shuhud | Major ideas in Sufi metaphysics have surrounded the concept of Wahdat or "Unity". Two main Sufi philosophies prevail on this controversial topic. Wahdat-ul-Wujood literally means More… 0.8 KB |
| 3. | Wahhabism | Wahhabi (Arabic: Al-Wahhābīyya الوهابية) or Wahhabism is a conservative form of Sunni Islam attributed to Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, an 18th century scholar from what is today known as More… 1.5 KB |
| 4. | Wait list control group | In a therapy outcome study, a group of people that functions as a control group while an experimental group receives an intervention. The control group later receives the intervention after More… 0.3 KB |
| 5. | Waking center | a brain center in the posterior hypothalamus presumed to regulate sleeping and waking. Defined by some neurologists as a part of the reticular activating system. |
| 6. | Waking hypnosis | A state of hypnosis induced without reference to sleep by having the subject fix his attention on an object and close his eyes tightly. The method is believed to be easier to learn and More… 0.3 KB |
| 7. | Water intoxication | (also known as hyperhydration or water poisoning) is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain functions that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside of More… 7.2 KB |
| 8. | Waxy flexibility | An aspect of catatonic immobility in which the patient's limbs can be moved into a variety of positions and maintained thereafter for unusually long periods of time. Also called waxy More… 0.2 KB |
| 9. | Weak agnosticism | Weak agnosticism, or empirical agnosticism (also negative agnosticism), according to Graham Oppy, is "the view which is sustained by the thesis that it is permissible for reasonable More… 1.5 KB |
| 10. | Wernickes Aphasia | Wernicke's aphasia is a language disorder produced by damage in the anterior region of the left temporal cortex. Patients with Wernicke's aphasia seem largely unable to comprehend More… 0.4 KB |
| 11. | Wernickes encephalopathy | Chronic, permanent, cognitive brain disorder produced by a deficiency of B-complex vitamins (usually alcohol induced) that is marked by confusion, drowsiness, partial paralysis of eye More… 0.3 KB |
| 12. | White matter | The neural tissue, particularly of the brain and spinal cord, consisting of tracts or bundles of myelinated (sheathed) nerve fibers. |
| 13. | Whole learning | Refers to learning by wholes rather than parts. For example, a person with a poem to memorize using the whole method starts at the beginning and goes all the way through the poem to the very More… 0.3 KB |
| 14. | Wilding | Slang for antisocial behavior, especially of adolescents, often when they are affected by alcohol or drugs, during which time they experience high emotionality, destroy property, and injure More… 0.3 KB |
| 15. | Wilfred Ruprecht Bion | Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO (8 Sep 1897 – 8 Nov 1979) was a British psychoanalyst. A pioneer in group dynamics, he was associated with the 'Tavistock group', the group of pioneering More… 2.1 KB |
| 16. | Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt | (Aug 16, 1832 || Aug 31, 1920) was a German medical doctor, psychologist, physiologist, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. He is widely regarded More… 3.9 KB |
| 17. | William Glasser | William Glasser, M.D. is a American psychiatrist born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1925, and developer of Reality Therapy and Choice Theory. His ideas, which focus on personal choice, personal More… 2.9 KB |
| 18. | William James | (1842-1910) American philosopher and psychologist, James graduated from Harvard Medical School but never practices medicine. However, as a Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at Harvard More… 0.9 KB |
| 19. | Windmill illusion | an intermittent change in the apparent direction of rotation of a weel or weel-like figure. |
| 20. | Wisdom of crowds | Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the More… 1.4 KB |
| 21. | Wishful thinking | thinking directed more by personal wishes than by objective or rational factors. |
| 22. | Withdrawal dyskinesia | A condition opf generally temporary tardive dyskinesia-like symptoms which occur following the cessation of treatment with neuroleptic medications. |
| 23. | Withdrawal symptoms | Negative physiological and psychological reactions evidenced when a person suddenly stops taking an addictive drug. These symptoms include cramps, restlessness, and death in extreme cases. More… 0.2 KB |
| 24. | Wolfgang Köhler | (January 21, 1887 – June 11, 1967) was a German psychologist who, with Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, founded Gestalt theory. Köhler was born in the port city of Reval (now Tallinn), the More… 4.2 KB |
| 25. | Woolly mammoth | A metaphor for the way in which the repressed conflicts of psychoanalytic theory are encapsulated in the unconscious, making them inaccessible to examination and alteration. |