Educational and Cognitive Vocabulary

Vocabulary terms related to cognitive development, education, and social interactions as presented in the lecture notes.

Self-regulation

The ability to monitor and manage your energy states, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

Competent

Having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully.

Peer

A person of the same age, status, or ability as another specified person.

Provision

The action of providing or supplying something for use.

Manipulate

To handle, control or use something in a skillful manner.

Know-how

Practical knowledge or skill; expertise.

Emerge

To become apparent, important, or prominent.

Compensate for

To make up for something unwelcome or unpleasant by exerting an opposite force or effect.

Metacognition

Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes.

Succinctly

In a brief and clearly expressed manner.

Conversely

Introducing a statement or idea which reverses one that has just been made or referred to.

Diminish

Make or become less.

Autonomy

The right or condition of self-government; freedom from external control or influence.

Spoon-feeding

Providing someone with so much help or information that they do not need to think for themselves.

Deprived areas

Places lacking the necessities of life, such as adequate food, money, or housing.

Domain

A specified sphere of activity or knowledge.

Expertise

Expert skill or knowledge in a particular field.

Facilitate

Make (an action or process) easy or easier.

Inhibit

Hinder, restrain, or prevent (an action or process).

In harness

In the normal routine of working, or working together to achieve a specific purpose efficiently.

Channel their feelings

To direct emotions towards a particular end or object.