PSYC 3850 Quiz: Intellectual Disability Chapter Summaries

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3850
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

Before 1800 having intellectual disabilities was not considered an urgent social problem, instead those with severe disabilities were either killed or died of natural causes at an early age. In some cases, those with disabilities were viewed as a drain on society and were targeted for elimination until recent times in the 1900s. Past definitions of intellectual disabilities defined it as genetically determined and an incurable condition. Intellectual disabilities includes a wide range of behaviour: it unfortunately shares what other labeling terms do in terms of being a convenient, generalized expression about persons or groups. Intellectual disabilities is both a: label of fact: This form of a label must be quantifiable and verifiable. It must demonstrate observed characteristics that are verifiable and quantifiable. 20% of intellectual disabilities is caused by biomedical factors: label of conjecture: This form of a label may include concepts that are as yet only hypothesised. 80% of intellectual disabilities is caused by unknown reasons.