PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Cochlear Implant, Toronto District School Board, Social Comparison Theory
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Evaluations: very poor, poor excellent, exceptional: word has a positive connotation (person has outstanding skills in area) Semantic meaning: statistical statement exception from the rule. Exceptional = not fitting in the norm: education is designed around the average student, below need to receive something extra labelled exceptional = grants them rights, can be in many different areas. Exceptional: higher or lower end of walking, talking, learning, visual, reading etc. Not completely different than other areas (eg. mental illness: mental illness & disability are not mutually exclusive {can be the same thing} There was no concise shift from one period to another & some things (eg. isolation) still exist. Social isolation (oldest stage, but still exists today) Murder or confinement outside society: baby born with physical impairment/disability = murdered, neglected if society was more gentle = confinement outside society (shunned out) Leper colonies (1903-1957: to get to the island {need to cross the water channel}
