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• Qualitative Research. CORRECT ANSWER: research that collects data through
various kinds of observations
• quantitative research. CORRECT ANSWER: research in which results are based
on a large sample that is representative of the population
• experimental research. CORRECT ANSWER: research in which the subjects are
randomly assigned to experimental and control groups
• quasi-experimental research. CORRECT ANSWER: Research conducted without
randomized assignment of subjects to experimental and control groups
• metacognition. CORRECT ANSWER: deliberate rearrangement of information
while thinking
• Broca's area. CORRECT ANSWER: area of the brain for articulation
• Parieto-temporal. CORRECT ANSWER: Area of the brain for word analysis
• occipito-temporal. CORRECT ANSWER: area of the brain for word form
• auditory. CORRECT ANSWER: related to hearing
• visual. CORRECT ANSWER: related to seeing
, • modality. CORRECT ANSWER: a specific sensory pathway
• kinesthetic. CORRECT ANSWER: related to muscle movement or memory
• multi-sensory. CORRECT ANSWER: pertaining to the simultaneous use of
multiple senses
• tactile. CORRECT ANSWER: related to touch
• word blindness. CORRECT ANSWER: early term for dyslexia
• explicit instruction. CORRECT ANSWER: clear, precise, and specific instruction
• dyslexia. CORRECT ANSWER: a specific language based disorder characterized
by difficulty with single-word reading
• phonetics. CORRECT ANSWER: the study of the characteristics of speech
sounds
• phonology. CORRECT ANSWER: the rules that determine how sounds are used
in spoken language
• Allophone. CORRECT ANSWER: a variation of a speech sound
• phonological awareness. CORRECT ANSWER: awareness of the overall sound
structure of words