Glossary W

Withdrawal design refers to the removal of a treatment to note whether said treatment has been effective.

withdrawal symptoms refer to physical or psychological symptoms such as convulsions, tremor, vomiting, insomnia , anxiety , muscle pain and sweating that follow the abrupt discontinuation of a drug that produces physical dependence . It is a physical illness and discomfort following the withdrawal of a drug.

Withdrawal -destructiveness relationship refers to the Fromm's theory where a relationship is characterized by distance , apathy, or aggression

Withdrawn refers to a path to peer rejection in which children are shy and selfconscious.

Withdrawn-rejected children refer to a sub-group of rejected children who are usually passive, socially anxious, socially unskilled, and insensitive to peer-group expectations..

within-group designs refer to designs in which the same group of participants is compared at different points in time, as in before and after a treatment is administered

Within-subjects design refers to a research design in which the different groups of scores are all obtained from the same group of participants. It is a research paradigm in which the same experimental subjects participate in different experimental conditions . Moreover, it is a research design that uses each participant as his or her own control ; for example, the behavior of a participant before receiving treatment might be compared to his or her behavior after receiving treatment. Within-subjects design is allso known as Repeated-measures design.

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