PSY 541 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Standard Deviation, Immigration Restriction Act 1901, Intellectual Disability
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Compare and contrast the constructs of intelligence and adaptive behavior. Also, describe how the assessment of adaptive behavior differs from the assessment of intelligence: adaptive behavior -- what a person typically does rather than what they can or could do. What was the effect of the eugenics movement on social policies regarding individuals with intellectual disability: goddard did a study of the inheritance of feeblemindedness in 1912 and published a book that became very popular. Ignorance, poverty, and social pathology are in the blood--in the seed. : the eugenics movement led to the enactment of sterilization laws. (supreme. Court case buck v bell: the dsm-5 definition of intellectual disability contains three main components. List and describe each of these components: the essential feature of mental retardation is significantly subaverage intellectual functioning. {significant limitations in adaptive behavior: the onset must occur before age 18.
