Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Andrew Wakefield, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Brain Damage

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Psychology lecture 28, read chapter 9 and 424-428. Is the test culture-fair" or do the answers require specific knowledge available only to certain (sub) cultures: more than academic" question. Who goes to uni and who doesn"t. Separating people, and can change their lives: so test has to be unbiased, otherwise you"re ruining people"s lives for no reason, dove (1968) Idiot was accepted category of mental retardation at the time. All seem to be right hemispheric brain people. All linked with phenomenal but narrow memory. Very rare less than 100 reports of prodigious activity. 6 times more likely in males than females: causes. Perhaps savants have more photographic memory: unlikely. 1 in 23 relatives of 5 savants. Autistic kids most likely group to develop syndrome (1 in 10) Social attention serves as reward for display of talent, also unlikely. Many crave attention without developing exceptional talent.