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In reading education, a method of diagnosing reading difficulties for the purpose of identifying the specific elements that are weak and need remedial training. The assumes that reading ability consists of specific skills that can be identified.  

A chemical component of a sample to be determined or measured. Any substance that is measured, usually applied to a component of blood or other body fluid; substance dissolved in a solution; also called solute.  

A phase of psychoanalysis characterized by the person developing an emotional attachment to the therapist. The attachment may be of admiration or love, and called positive transference; hostility called negative transference; or a combination of these two called ambivalent transference, analysis of resistance.  

A contemporary trend to encourage teachers to critique their own performance in the classroom.  

When a person exhibits resistance during free association during psychoanalysis, the therapist must attempt to break down the resistance so that the person becomes conscious of the painful conflict: analysis of transference.  

A statistical technique for adjusting the means of groups for the effect of an unwanted variable.  

The syndrome of parsimony, pedantry, and petulance assumed in psychoanalytic theory to result from fixation at the anal stage of development.  

In psychoanalytic theory, the stage of psychosexual development during which the focus of pleasure is on activities associated with elimination, oral stage; phallic stage; latency stage. In Freudian psychology, the second phase of sexual development, from infancy to childhood, in which the libido is concentrated in the anal region. In order of appearance, the phases…

An adult who, when anal retentive, is found by psychoanalytic theory stingy and sometimes obsessively clean. In Freudian psychology, a personality disorder marked by excessive orderliness, stinginess, and obstinacy. If carried to an extreme, these qualities lead to the development of obsessive-compulsive behavior.  

Similarity that derives from having a common function or structure without regard to evolutionary origins, homology. Likeness or similarity between two things that are otherwise unalike.