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A condition resulting from insufficient food.  

The phrase organization that describes the meaning of parts of a sentence, phrase structure, surface structure.  

A child’s tendency to limit the meaning of words to fewer referents than would an adult.  

In reference to childhood disorders, problem behavior that creates trouble for others, e.g., disobedience and aggressiveness.  

Characterized by not having had coitus.  

Motivation for a person’s behavior of which he or she is not aware.  

Subconscious mind.  

A process to explain certain perceptual phenomena such as size constancy. An object is perceived to be in the distance and is, there-fore, unconsciously perceived as larger than it appears to be retinally shape constancy.  

Behavior in which a person is experiences no sensory awareness.  

The activator (stimulus) that elicits the unconditioned response in classical conditioning. Any stimulus that elicits an unconditioned response (i.e., a response that occurs by reflex rather than by learning).