Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bombardier Talent 2, Eidetic Memory, Pervasive Developmental Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Michael Atkinson

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****no lecture quesions from chapter 9 for next exam**** Validity: test measures what it is supposed to. idiotwas accepted category of intellectual impairment at the ime o. Excel in narrow range of abiliies o o o o o. Very rare less than 100 reports of prodigious ability. 6 imes more likely in males than in females. Causes: eideic imaging, perhaps savants have photographic memory (unlikely, calculaions beyond published data, high % are blind, heredity, early studies suggest family relaionship, sensory deprivaion, resuling from auism Promotes intense concentraion: auisic kids most likely group to develop syndrome (1 in 10, but 90% do not, reinforcement, social atenion serves as reward for display of talent, unlikely: many crave atenion without developing excepional talent. Lateralizaion: most savants have let hemisphere deicits, right hemisphere develops before the let c, right hemisphere recruits neural connecions across the corpus callosum, efect can be triggered by testosterone.