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| a permanent change in behavior resulting from experience |
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| an attempt to find an appropriate way of attaining a goal when the goal is not readily attainable |
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| is the effect of inescapable positive punishment on behavior |
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| the process of adapting to the environment (stimulus response link) |
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| the measurable factor, characteristic, or attribute of an individual or a system |
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| the legislation that ensures a free and appropriate education for students with disabilities in the LRE |
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| refers to having significantly below-average intellectual functioning and can be mild, moderate, severe, or profound |
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| exists when there is a signficant discrepancy between one's ability and one's achievement |
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| a standardized means of assessing a person's current mental ability (Stanford Binet, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) |
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| designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area |
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| electrochemical communication circuitry, made up of billions of neurons |
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| a vertebrate central nervous system is the brain and spinal cord |
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| the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one thing while ignoring another.(3 types: sustained, selective, and divided) |
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| refers to the background stimuli that accompany some kind of foreground event |
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| logically self-consistent models or frameworks describing the behavior of natural or social phenomenon (broad explanations and predictions) |
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| a prejudice in a general or specific sense, manifesting in having a preference to one particular point of view or ideological perspective |
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| a group concept, held by one social group about another, frequently used to justify discriminatory behavior (this allows powerful social groups to legitimize and protect their dominant position) |
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| in anatomy, the part of the retina where the optic nerve and blood vessels pass through to the connect to the back of the eye (no light receptors, so a portion of the field of vision is not perceived) |
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| the study of the way in spellings represent sounds that make up words |
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| refers to information returned to a person about the effects a response has had |
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