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| Misbehavior such as lying or stealing spurred by emotional difficulties |
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| Affective disorder characterized by such symptoms as a prolonged sense of friendlessness, inability to have fun or concentrate, fatigue, extreme activity or apathy, feelings of worthlessness, weight change, physical complaints, and thoughts of death or suiceide |
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| Psycological treatment in which a therapist sees a troubled person one on one to help the paietnt fain insighr inro his or her personality, relationships, feelings and behavior |
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| Pyscological treatment in which a therapist sees the whole family together to analuyze patterns of family functioning |
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| Therpautic approach using principals of learning theory to encourage desired or eleminita underired ones |
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| Administration of drugs to treat emotional disorders |
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| Children who weather adverse circumstances, function well despite challenges or threats or bounce back from traumatic events that would have a highly negative impact on the emotinonal development of most children |
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| Unrealistic fear of going to school; may be a form of seperation anxiety |
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| Seperation Anxiety Disorder |
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| Conditino involving excessie, prolonged anxiety concerning speration from home, family or from people to whom the child is attatched |
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| Agressino deliberatly and persistenly directed against a particular target, or victim, who is weak, vunerable and defenselss |
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| Agression aimed at damaging or interfering with another person's relationships, reputation, or well being |
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| Unfavorable attitude towar member of certain groups outside ones own, especially racial |
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| Transitional stage in the contol of behavior in which parents exersice general supervision and chidren exercise moment to moment self regulation |
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| In eriksons theory the fifth crisis of pyscosocial development in which an adolescent seeks to develop a coherent sense of self, including the role she or he is to play in society |
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| In eriksons theory the 1st crisis in pysosocial develpoment, occuring between birth and about 18 months in which infants develop a sense of the reliability of people and objects in thier world |
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| In neoPiagetian terminology, the third stage in development of self definition charachterized |
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| Disorders that interfere with specific aspects of learning and school achievement |
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| Storage of virtually unlimited capacity which hold information for very long periods |
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| Short term storage of informatino being activly processed |
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| Describing an intelligence test that if it were possible to design would have no culturally linked content |
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| Understanding of the process involved in communication |
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| Second of Pigets two stages of moral development, charachterized by flexible, subtle judgements and formulation of ones own moral code |
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| First in piagets two stages of moral develpoment charachterized by ridigid, simplistic judgements |
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| Approach to educating othe gifted, which boradens and deepens knowledge and skills through extra activities projects feildtrips |
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| English-immersion Approach |
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| Approach to teaching English as a second lanuages in which instruction is presented only in english from the outset of formal education |
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| Devlopment disorder in learning to read |
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| Tests that assess how much children know in vairous subject areas |
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| Tests that measuree childrens general intelligence or capacity to learn |
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| Otis Lennon School ABility Test |
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| Group intelliegencee test for Kindergarten through twelve |
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| Signlificannly subnormal cognitive functioning |
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| Types of logical reasoning that moves from particular observations to a general conclusion |
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| Type of logical reasoning that movse from a general premise about a class to a conclusion about a particular member or member of the class |
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| Thinking that produces a variety of fresh diverse possibilities |
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| Thinking aimed nat finding the right answer to the problem |
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