PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Spinalonga, Multiple Choice, Age Of Enlightenment
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Lecture 1: intro and a multidisciplinary view of exceptionality. Disability is the resulting experience of the disability. There are many factors that determine how likely disability when you are impaired. Multiple choice tests are made from test bank from the publisher. Tests have definitions that are based on the two terms. Most people are in the same iq score, and there is a low number of people that have either really above average or below average (looks like a bell curve distribution) Exceptional- different than the rest, an exception of the general rule that most people are different from the 2 standard deviations: we are taking about a statistical statement and there should be no value judgement. These periods still remain in practice in some parts of the world. 1) social isolation: those with disabilities were kept separate (murdered, confinement outside society) The torah shows that people are included within this society through a charity model.
