Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Worry

    Worry

    Persistent, undue concern about a past behavior or about an anticipated happening.  

  • Work responses

    Answers to questions that are attempts to respond in some relevant way.  

  • Workload

    Workload

    The amount of weight used in performing a particular exercise.  

  • Work injury report survey program

    Attempts to find causal data concerning specific problem areas that are identified by SDS.  

  • Working memory

    Short-term memory. The ability to store and use those facts and ideas that are needed to carry out immediate tasks.  

  • Work hypertrophy

    The concept that our body becomes increasingly capable of sustained exercise as a result of training.  

  • Workaholic

    A misnomer. An erroneously coined term to take the place of the acceptable term, ergomania. Based on a misrepresentation and misconception about alcohol. A colloquial term for a person addicted to occupational or productive pursuits who has difficulty relaxing or enjoying familial, social, or leisure activities.  

  • Word hash

    Jumbles or incoherent use of words by a psychotic or disoriented person.  

  • Word association test

    A test sometimes used for personality diagnosis in which a person gives the first word that comes to mind in response to a series of stimulus words.  

  • Wooly mammoth

    In psychoanalytic theory, a metaphor to describe conflicts housed in the unconscious making them inaccessible to examination.  

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