PSYC 3850 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-9: Intellectual Disability, Learned Helplessness, Speech Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3850
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

Intellectual functioning must be viewed within the context of (a) adaptive behavior, (b) participation, interactions, and social roles, (c) health), and (d) context (environment and culture). Constructivist theories of development emphasize that an individual construct, through increasingly complex cognitive functions, his/her understanding of the environment, events, interactions with others, as well as his/her own thoughts and actions. Piaget identified four major stages of development including the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stages. Meta(cid:272)og(cid:374)itio(cid:374) has to do (cid:449)ith a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d a(cid:271)out his/her o(cid:449)(cid:374) knowing or to learn about his/her own learning. This is an early indicator of how well children can focus their visual attention. Many individuals with cids experience difficult in attending to stimuli that are relevant to learning and ignoring or filtering out those stimuli that are not relevant (often referred to as distractibility).