Expository instruction {Ans: the use of an expert (teacher, textbook, video, etc) to explain a concept or give information to the student}John Watson {Ans: an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism}Protagonist {Ans: Main character in a story. Usually good guy.}Scaffolding {Ans: a learning process designed to promote a deeper level of learning}close reading {Ans: the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text}classical conditioning {Ans: a learning procedure in which a biologically potent stimulus is paired with a previously neutral stimulus.}Hypothesis {Ans: An educated guess}social comparison theory {Ans: proposed by psychologist Leon Festinger in 1954, centers on the belief that there is a drive within individuals to gain accurate self evaluations.}reading comprehension {Ans: the ability to read text, process it, and understand its meaning}frame of reference {Ans: consists of an abstract coordinate system and the set of physical reference points that uniquely fix (locate and orient) the coordinate system and standardize measurements.}reference books {Ans: one can refer to for information}Articulation {Ans: the physical production of particular speech sounds}Repetition {Ans: Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis}Simile {Ans: