PSYC 3850 Chapter 1: Chapter 1.docx

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

Document Summary

Historical perspectives: before 1800 having intellectual disabilities was not considered an urgent social problem because those with disabilities were either killed or died of natural causes, earlist written reference to id is dated 1552 bc although evidence of occurrence before that time period, human skulls dating to the neolithic age indicate that crude brain surgery had been performed used to cure" abnormal behavior, some humane treatment 6tth century pop gregory issues decree instructing the faithful to assist those who were crippled, exampel for sterilization is of martin kallikak;s descendents a. Intellectual disabilities ecompasses a wide range of characteristics; it is both a label of fact and a label of conjecture: label of fact must be quantifiable and verifiable, label of conjecture may include concepts that are as yet only hypothesize, only 20% of id caused by biomedical factors, environmental maybe because incidence of milder forms of id is much higher for.