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| Terms | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Warrington's Face/Word Recognition Test | task | Also called the Warrington Recognition Memory Test (RMT), "the RMT consists of the presentation of 50 printed words at the rate of one word every 3 s, and for each word the subject is required to judge the presented stimulus as "pleasant" or "unpleasant" to help ensure that they are attending to the stimulus items... |
| Wason card selection task | task | |
| Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence | task | The WASI meets the demand for a reliable, brief measure of intellectual ability in clinical, educational and research settings for ages 6 to 89 years. With parallel forms of WAIS-IIIUK and WISC-IIIUK subtests, it offers the clinician a means of reducing practice effects on repeat testing... |
| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Revised | task | used with adults ages 16 to 90 and measures cognitive ability using a core battery of 10 unique subtests that focus on four specific domains of intelligence: verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, and processing speed... |
| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised | task | a general test of intelligence, which Wechsler defined as, "... the global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment." In keeping with this definition of intelligence as an aggregate of mental aptitudes or abilities, the WAIS-R consists of 11 subtests divided into two parts, verbal and performance. |
| Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Revised | task | No definition submitted yet. |
| Wechsler Memory Scale (revised) | task | No definition submitted yet. |
| Wechsler Memory Scale Fourth Edition | task | Areas of Assessment Updated Test Structure The WMS-IV has had significant changes to the overall test structure. Based on feedback from customers, we are introducing four new subtests and modifying three existing subtests... |
| Whistling | task | Subjects whistle. |
| WISC-R Mazes | task | This task involves completing a series of increasingly complex mazes. |
| Wisconsin Card Sorting test | task | The participant is presented with stimulus cards with shapes on them. The cards differ in color of the shapes, number of the shapes, and the form of the shapes. The participant is asked to sort these cards into two piles... |
| wisdom | concept | accumulated philosophic or scientific learning. |
| word attack | task | Participants must read non-words aloud. Raw scores are converted into a "reading comprehension age," which is then compared to the participant's real age to determine if they are a poor or gifted reader. |
| word comprehension | concept | the ability to understand the meaning of words. |
| word comprehension task | task | A task that measures the comprehension of word meaning. |
| word fluency test | task | No definition submitted yet. |
| word frequency | concept | Disambiguation |
| word generation | concept | The cognitive process of producing words on ones own term instead of extracting them from an outside source. |
| Word generation task | task | Covert: Semantic: subjects listen to or view nouns and silently generate an associated verb, or subjects view a category and silently generate as many exemplars as possible; Orthographic: subjects listen to or view a letter and silently generate as many words as possible that start with that letter; Phonologic: subjects listen to or view a word and silently generate words that rhyme... |
| word identification | task | is the process of determining the pronunciation and some degree of meaning of an unknown word. Note: Word- identification skills commonly taught are phonic analysis, structural analysis, context clues, configuration clues, dictionary skills, and sometimes picture clues... |
| word one-back task | task | A one-back task on which subjects are presented with words or word-like stimuli |
| word order | concept | is the sequence of the syntactic constituents of a language. |
| word production | concept | A processing of generating word, such as speaking and spelling. |
| word pronunciation | concept | is the act or result of producing the sounds of speech, including articulation, stress, and intonation, often with reference to some standard of correctness or acceptability. |
| word recognition | concept | the ability of a reader to recognize written words correctly and virtually effortlessly. |
| word repetition | concept | is the saying by one individual of the spoken vocalizations(word(s)) made by another individual. This requires the ability in the person making the copy to map the sensory input they hear from the other person's vocal pronunciation into a similar motor output with their own vocal tract. |
| Word Stem Completion (Covert) | task | Subjects view word stems and silently generate a word that completes the stem. |
| Word Stem Completion (Overt) | task | Subjects view word stems and overtly generate a word that completes the stem. |
| word-picture matching task | task | |
| word-picture verification task | task | is an experimental paradigm where a picture of an object is presented along with either an auditory or written word and participants indicate whether the word and the picture refer to the same concept... |
| working memory | concept | active maintenance and flexible updating of goal/task relevant information (items, goals, strategies, etc.) in a form that resists interference but has limited capacity. These representations may involve flexible binding of representations, may be characterized by the absence of external support for the internally maintained representations, and are frequently temporary due to ongoing interference |
| working memory retrieval | concept | The process of accessing information that is maintained in working memory; the sub-process by which the contents of working memory are accessed. |
| working memory storage | concept | The maintenance of information of working memory; a sub-component of working memory that allows for contents of working memory to be retained. |
| Writing Task | task | Subjects write letters or words with a pen, stylus, or their finger. |