PSY 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Aggression, Conduct Disorder, Encopresis
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*note expect many disorders and less detail. Be sure to review the dsm-5 criteria in your books! Intellectual disability: deficits or impairment in at least two areas of developmental and sociocultural functioning. Intellectual disability: onset before age 18, 5x more likely to have other disorders, prevalence = 1-3% - medical causes of mental disabilities have decreased over the years. Specific learning disorders: difficulties learning and using academic skills. - reading, writing, arithmetic, mathematical reasoning academic skills. - problems reading tend to be the most common. Specific learning disorders: prevalence = 5-10% school aged (middle, elementary, high school, arise from neurological impairments. Skills can increase over time, but there is still that gap between them and others who are the same age. One example she gave was the brain and how when individuals with autism see a face they know, parts of the brain do not light up as much as it does with a normally developing individual.
