| learning disability | A disorder in one or more of the basic cognitive and psychological processes involved in understanding or using written or spoken language; may be manifested in age-related impairment in the ability to read, write, spell, speak, or perform mathematical calculations. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| veterans disability claims | Disorders claimed as a result of military service. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| developmental disability | Loss of function brought on by prenatal and postnatal events in which the predominant disturbance is in the acquisition of cognitive, language, motor, or social skills; e.g., mental retardation, autistic disorder, learning disorder, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| disability | 1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like. "Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted." (Milton) "Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability." (Bancroft) 2. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency. "The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture." (Abbott) Synonym: Weakness, inability, incompetence, impotence, incapacity, incompetency, disqualification. Disability, Inability. Inability is an inherent want of power to perform the thing in question; disability arises from some deprivation or loss of the needed competency. One who becomes deranged is under a disability of holding his estate; and one who is made a judge, of deciding in his own case. A man may decline an office on account of his inability to discharge its duties; he may refuse to accept a trust or employment on account of some disability prevents him from entering into such engagements. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| disability evaluation | Determination of the degree of a physical, mental, or emotional handicap. The diagnosis is applied to legal qualification for benefits and income under disability insurance and to eligibility for social security and workmen's compensation benefits. (12 Dec 1998) |
| insurance, disability | Insurance designed to compensate persons who lose wages because of illness or injury; insurance providing periodic payments that partially replace lost wages, salary, or other income when the insured is unable to work because of illness, injury, or disease. Individual and group disability insurance are two types of such coverage. (12 Dec 1998) |
| association learning | The principle that items experienced together enter into a connection, so that one tends to reinstate the other. (12 Dec 1998) |
| avoidance learning | A response to a cue that is instrumental in avoiding a noxious experience. (12 Dec 1998) |
| machine learning | This is the study of how to create computers that will learn from experience and modify their activity based on that learning (as opposed to traditional computers whose activity will not change unless the programmer explicitly changes it). This discipline is a sub-set of Artificial Intelligence. (09 Oct 1997) |
| paired-associate learning | Learning in which the subject must respond with one word or syllable when presented with another word or syllable. (12 Dec 1998) |
| verbal learning | Learning to respond verbally to a verbal stimulus cue. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maze learning | Learning the correct route through a maze to obtain reinforcement. It is used for human or animal populations. (12 Dec 1998) |
| passive learning | Learning without a direct attempt. Synonym: passive learning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reversal learning | Any situation where an animal or human is trained to respond differentially to two stimuli (e.g., approach and avoidance) under reward and punishment conditions and subsequently trained under reversed reward values (i.e., the approach which was previously rewarded is punished and vice versa). (12 Dec 1998) |
| rote learning | The learning of arbitrary relationships, usually by repetition of the learning procedure through memorization and without an understanding of the relationships. (05 Mar 2000) |
| complex learning processes | Those process's that require the use of symbolic manipulations, as in reasoning. (05 Mar 2000) |