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deep dyslexia

a form of acquired dyslexia characterized by semantic errors (e.g., reading parrot as canary), difficulties in reading abstract words (e.g., idea, usual) and function words (e.g., the, and), and an inability to read pronounceable nonwords. See also phonological dyslexia; surface dyslexia. [first described in 1973 by British neuropsychologists John C. Marshall (1939–2007) and Freda Newcombe (1925–2001)]

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weapons effect

weapons effect

increased hostility or a heightened inclination to aggression produced by the mere sight of a weapon. If provoked, individuals who have previously been shown a weapon will behave more aggressively than will those who have not. Subsequent research has indicated that this aggressive behavior is primed by the sight or suggestion of weapons (see priming) and that any other object associated with aggression can have the same effect. [identified in 1967 by U.S. psychologists Leonard Berkowitz (1926–  ) and Anthony LePage]