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GUCCI
Middle Childhood
Term | Definition |
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Growth Spurt | a period during which growth advances at a dramatically rapid rate compared with other periods |
Reaction Time | the amount of time required to respond to a stimulus |
ADHD | a disorder characterized by excessive inattention, impulsiveness, and hyperactivity |
Dyslexia | a reading disorder characterized by letter reversals, mirror reading, slow reading, and reading comprehension |
Learning Disabilities | Disorders characterized by inadequate development of specific academic, language, and speech skills |
Mainstreaming | placing disabled children in classrooms with nondisabled children |
Transitivity | the principle that if A>B and B>C then A>C |
Seriation | placing objects in an order or series according to a property or trait |
Sensory Register | another term for sensory memory |
Encode | to transform sensory input into a form that is more readily processed |
Rehearse | repeat |
Metacognition | awareness of and control of one's cognitive abilities |
Chronological Age (CA) | a person's age |
Culture-Free | descriptive of a test in which cultural biases have been removed |
Creativity | a trait characterized by flexibility, ingenuity, and orignality |