Chapter three- beyond the IQ Flashcards
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Learning disability
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Significant impairment in the ability to learn new information and skills, understand new or complex information, or to cope independently with the demands of everyday life
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Learning difficulties
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Specific problems with reading, or understanding numbers, for example, which can prevent someone from reaching certain educational or academic goals but are not linked to general intellectual functioning
3
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Euphemism treadmill
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The process whereby a word introduced to replace an offensive word over time itself becomes offensive, and is then replaced by another
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Personality
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A persons stable and enduring traits and characteristics which lead them to behave in a steady way over time
