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English-First Test
Test Date- 3/8
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English
9th Grade
03/07/2010

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The Cognitive cycle was derived by...
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Alfred Corzengues
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Cognitive cycle - 3 Parts
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Extentional World

Overlay

Verbal World

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Extentional World
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  • Constant sensory
  • Data Inflax
  • Sight; Taste; Hearing
  • Events
  • Circumstances
  • People
  • Obejects
  • Dynamics
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Overlay
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Match = Equilibrium

Mismatch = Disequalibrium (Requiring something)

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Verbal World
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  • Conceptualizations
  • Paradigims
  • Expectations
  • "Learned Information
  • Explanations to self about... How? Why? whao? When? What? Etc...
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Disequalibrium (Requires something)
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Revise/Change/Modify   ^   Revise Change Modify   ^   Lose mental/emotional

Extensional                  ^   Verbal world to              ^   stability and loose touch

Circumstances to         ^    Accomidate                 ^    with Reality

align with verbal            ^   Circumstances             ^

world                           ^                                      ^

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Languaist
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Someone that studies language
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All people belong to two worlds:
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Verbal (In Brain)

Extentional (everything outside brain)

 

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Report Language
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  • Factual = Inarguable (proviable; no jugment/opinon)
  • language of science
  • Allows for work to done
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Directive Language
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Assertive= establishment of social cohesion

  • Language of law and order oaths vows, commands, etc.
  • allows for predictability in life affects future events
  • Stability - expectations
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Affective language
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  • Emotional and figurative language of literature allows for nicarious experiences = "The willing suspension of disbelief" Samuel Coleridge
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Emotions are ....
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Chemical reaction that reacts to your body
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Indominitable
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- incapable of being subdued/ courage
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Indulgent
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Indulging of chaterogizing by endulgence; Lenient; charitable
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Ineffectual
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not producing the proper event ; Failing
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Inscrutable
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Not readily investigated , intrepretted, or understood; Mysterious
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Intracable
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Not easily controlled or governed
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Irate
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Roused to intense openly displanyed; anger!
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Irresolute
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uncertain how to act or proceed
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jovail
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merry; good humored
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lackadasial
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lacking life and spirit
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malleable
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capable of eing extended or shaped by beating of hammer; having capacity
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nonchalant
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having a air of easy uncertain or indifference
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oblivious
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lacking remembrance, memory, mindfull attention
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precocious
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exceptionary early in development or occurance
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recalitrate
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obstaintly defient
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reticent
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inclined to be silent
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tenacious
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not easily pulled apart tending to adhire; cohesive; cling
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timid
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lacking in courage/ self defense
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amenable
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ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable
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amiable
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having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable
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articulate
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using language easily and fluently; having facility with words
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assiduous
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constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentiv
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audacious
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extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless
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autonomous
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self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only.
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chivalaries
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the sum of the ideal qualifications of a knight, including courtesy, generosity, valor, and dexterity in arms.
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Curt
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rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner
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deferential
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showing deference; deferent; respectful
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discreet
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judicious in one's conduct or speech, esp. with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect
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dubious
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doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt
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dour
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sullen; gloomy
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fervent
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having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc
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grim
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stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise
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impassive
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without emotion; apathetic; unmoved
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implacaple
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not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified
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incorrigible

 

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not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform
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incredulous
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not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical
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indolent
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having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful 
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