Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A theory of perceptual learning that attributes change to increasing sensitivity to properties of stimulus that children learn to differentiate with experience, rather than to learning new responses.  

Education personnel, selected, educated, and deployed so as to make optimum use of their abilities, interests, preparation, and commitments. It gives them greater opportunity and autonomy in guiding their own professional growth.  

Instruction and learning activities that are uniquely and predominantly suited to the capacities and interests of gifted students.  

The ways in which parents and others react differently to children and reinforce different behaviors for the two sexes.  

In education, extra pay or incentives (added standard increments) awarded to teachers on the basis of merit.  

A medium developed to elicit a specific characteristic of an organism or group of organisms.  

Pertaining to membranes that allow some substances to pass through more readily than others.  

Theory of career planning.  

The planning of the appropriate form of treatment for a distinct disorder.  

A third tone sometimes heard when tones of two widely different frequencies are sounded together, beat; summation tone.