PSYC 4030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Impulsivity, South Dakota Highway 15, Intellectual Disability
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Questionnaires are filled out by parents and teachers. If they are old enough, the client can also fill them out. Compare the client to other people their age. Seeing if they are performing better or worse than others their age. Standard scores have a = 100 and sd= 15. Original intelligence scores were as follows: extremely high is 98+, very high is 91-97, high average if 75-90, average is 25-74, low average is 9-24, very low is 2-8, extremely low is below 2. Corresponding standard scores: 130+, 120-129, 110-119, 90-109, 80-89, 70-79, 69 & below. Our ability to use language to understand information, express ideas and solve problems. Tested by asking a question and listening to the way the person verbally works through the answer. Looks at different pieces and figure out how to put them together to make a whole. The ability to keep information in your mind long enough to work with it.
