PSY 150A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual Disability, Mercury Poisoning

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 150A1
• Professor: Lazarwicz

Document Summary

Iq score of 70 or below: 2. Significant limitations in everyday life (2+ domains: 3. Intellectual disability does not equal inability to learn or perform well. Causes of intellectual disability: genetic causes. Problems before birth (eg. fetal alcohol syndrome) Problems after birth (eg. childhood disease, lead & mercury poisoning) The gifted: unclear causes (biological basis?) Gifted boys = higher testosterone levels that nongifted boys. Gifted girls = high testosterone levels than nongifted girls: advantages. Correlation between brain volume and ig score. Adopted children: higher correlations of iq with biological parents than. Group differences in intelligence testing adoptive: socioeconomic status (ses): family income, parental education level, parental occupation, social status in community, etc, ses & iq positively correlated. Sex differences in intelligence: average iq equal across gender, but variability is different. Majority of low iq scores are boys. Boys are also more likely to have higher iqs. Possible biases in intelligence testing: 1.