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Your Niece Is a Very Intelligent Person and Is Excelling

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Your niece is a very intelligent person and is excelling in high school.In fact, it seems that she continues to get more intelligent, and she is doing especially well in biology, which she became interested in during middle school.What is happening to your niece, neurologically speaking?


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Secondary Reinforcement

A process in which a stimulus reinforces behavior after it has been associated with a primary reinforcer, often through social or conditioned means.

Discrimination

Unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, gender, or disability.

Spontaneous Recovery

The unexpected return of a learned behavior after its apparent extinction, highlighting the persistence of memory traces.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, triggers a conditioned response.

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