PSYC 3604 Study Guide - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual Disability, Traumatic Brain Injury

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3604
• Professor: Connie Kristiansen

Document Summary

This was refer to mental retardation but mental retardation has a negative connotation to it. Onset is usually in childhood, can actually grow normally. Organic retardation ( due to biological factors), and the levels of retardation are severe. Cultural-familial retardation: less evidence that is due to biological factors, tend to be less severe than organic retardation, with a good intervention child will eventually develop normal abilities. Biological causes: biological factors can cause mental retardation: genetic factors: Children that receive treatment early can develop normally. Phenylketonuria ( unable to metabolize phenylamine and amino acids thus phenylamine builds up and causes brain damage) and. Tay-sachs disease ( carried by a recessive gene, and present btwn. While sex chromosomes is the 23rd pair of chromosome. Down syndrome or trisomy 21 is due to chromosome 21, they tend to have heart and gastrointestinal problems, their mental retardation vary , and its the most famous mental retardation.