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GUCCI
Middle Childhood
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |