Term
| Definition
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Language
| is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication
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Profession
| is an occupation, vocation or high-status career founded upon specialized educational training
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Term
| a noun or compound word used in a specific context
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Mental process or mental functions
| are specific human mental processes which occur in an individual mind
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Perception
| The process of organizing and using information that is received through the senses.
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Memory
| Is the process in which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
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Thinking
| the action of using your mind to produce ideas, decisions, memories, etc.
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Imagination
| is the ability to form new images and sensations in the mind that are not perceived through senses such as sight, hearing, or other senses.
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Volition (or will)
| is the cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action.
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Emotion
| a person's state of feeling in the sense of an affect
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Cognition
| is the set of all mental abilities and processes related to knowledge, attention, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language, etc.
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Speech
| the vocalized form of human communication
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Sign language
| is a language which uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning, as opposed to acoustically conveyed sound patterns.
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Development
| the act or process of growing or causing something to grow or become larger or more advanced
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Training
| process by which someone is taught the skills that are needed for an art, profession, or job
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Zone of proximal development
| often abbreviated as ZPD, is the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help. It is a concept introduced by Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934)
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Adaptation
| a change in structure, function, or behavior by which a species or individual improves its chance of survival in a specific environment.
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Defectology
| a branch of science which studies of the principles and
characteristics of the development of children with physical or mental defects and problems of their education
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The disabled/ handicapped
| Persons with disabilities (mental, visual, hearing, speech, language, behavior, etc. disabilities)
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Inclusive education
| when children with and without disabilities learn together. There are 2 types of inclusion: regular and full
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Integration
| coordination of mental processes into a normal effective personality or with the environment
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Helen Keller
| an American author, political activist, lecturer and the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree
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Lev Vygotsky
| a Soviet psychologist, the founder of a theory of human cultural and bio-social development
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