Investigating Intelligence, Chapter 3 - Keywords

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Keywords from chapter 3 of investigating intelligence, the first text of the open university module de100 investigating psychology.
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Learning disability Significant impairment in the ability to learn new information and skills, understand new or complex information or to cope with the demands of everyday life.
Learning difficulties Specific difficulties with reading, or understanding numbers, for example, which can prevent someone from reaching academic goals, but not linked to general intelligence functioning.
Euphemism treadmill The process whereby a word introduced to replace an offensive word over time itself becomes offensive, and is then replaced by another.
Personality A person's stable and enduring traits and characteristics which lead them to behave in a steady way over time.
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