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11 Cards in this Set
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epiphyses
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the growth centers of long bones; they produce cartilage cells, and as these harden, the bone grows inside
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Glial cells
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fatty cells responsible for myelinating the neurons in the brain and providing other support functions for neurons
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Haptic discrimination
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ability to tell objects apart using TOUCH
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object segregation
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the ability to identify objects in the world – to tell where one object begins and the other ends
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phoneme
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smallest unit of sound that carries meaning in a language
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perceptual tuning
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the process of becoming less sensitive over time to stimuli that are not in the typical environment (perceptual narrowing)
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Kwashiorkor
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swollen belly from starvation
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Marasmus
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starvation causes fragile and thin
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Receptive vocabulary
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the words we understand when others say them
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productive vocabulary
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the words we say
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Minimum Distance Principle (Chomsky):
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verb refers to the noun that is nearest to it on the left
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