[KINESIOL 3B03] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (61 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KINESIOL 3B03
• Professor: Randy Calvert

Document Summary

Dsm 4: developmental disabilities, written by psychiatrists and psychologists. Intellectual developmental disorder (idd: all three terms are interchangeable , captures a larger group of the population, defintions have become more dynamic people change in their diagnosis in growth and development. Intellectual developmental disorder deficits in cognitive capacity beginning in the developmental period (early childhood, when we start to develop) capacity deficits translate into impairments of impairments of general mental. Mental retardation" ( = idd now) definitions: significant sub-average intellectual functioning classification used to be based on iq. 1959: iq > 1 sd below mean, impaired adaptive behaviour, manifests prior to age 16, many people are > 1 sd under mean so a lot of people would be categorized here. 1973: iq > 2 sd"s below mean, manifests prior to age 18, relying / making diagnosis based on performance of a pen and paper test, challenge: how to administer that test.