PSYC 412 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Muscle Tone, Fetus, Nondisjunction
29 Dec 2016
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Chapter 5 intellectual disability (intelectual developmental disorder) Intellectual disability is a neurodevelopmental disorder, a group of conditions with inset in the developmental period that produce impairments of social, personal, academic or occupational functioning. Deficits in adaptive skills early onset cultural and linguistic diversity, as well as differences in communication, sensory, motor and behavioral factors must be carefully considered in determining a deficit disability. Intelligence and intellectual disability eugenics defined as the science which deals w all influences that improve the inborn qualities of race intellectually impaired were seen as a public menace, to be feared and ostracized. Defining and measuring children"s intelligence and adaptive behavior considered to constitute (cid:498)intelligence(cid:499: only exception during early infancy, when fluctuation can still occur. Iq is generally stable from childhood through adulthood over time. W children and infants w developmental delays or id -> at the lower levels of iq, even the youngest infants show stability.
