PSY 30312 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Functional Analysis, Chromosome, Short Stature
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A person who has a low iq, but regular adaptive functioning does not have a disability. Have many individual differences in personality, preferences, interests, and lifestyles. More prevalent among children of lower socioeconomic status and children from minority groups this is among the mild range. Mild (~85%) most commonly found in kids with disabilities. The great iq debate: the dsm-5 does not provide clear iq cut-offs for intellectual disability. Lower than average iq is not sufficient criteria for diagnosing and intellectual disability. Iq test specificity: greater focus on personal qualities/ more descriptive. Practical: ** rather than using iq as the main way to diagnose an id, there is a greater focus and more description in terms of developmental and clarification of functioning in each domain ** o. Iq= generally stable childhood through adulthood, but there is no correlation between infant iq scores and later in ones from. But this does not hold true for children with developmental delays or id:
