PSY 200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intellectual Disability, Culture Of Asia, Psy
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Down"s syndrome mental retardation with delay in cognitive ability and physical growth, iq around 50. Savant syndrome severe mental disability including autism, demonstrates profound and prodigious capacities in excess of what would considered normal in specific area. Twins and iq interconnectedness between twins. language highly heritable. Ethnic differences in intelligence tests-groups vary on iq scores. ~african culture value social skills (social responsibility and active in family) ~asian culture value humility, awareness, and doing the right thing. Gender difference in intelligence more variability among iq tests of men than among women. Algorithm step-by-step formulas or procedures for solving problems. Sudden solutions that come to mind in a flash. Inability to break out of a particular mind-set and form a fresh perspective. Incubation stage of creativity, process of unconscious recombination of thought elements that were stimulated through conscious work at one point in time, resulting in novel ideas at some later point.
