PSYC 3850 Chapter 2: Chapter 2.docx

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

Document Summary

Chapter 2: diversity issues: cultural diversity involves critically important differences that require attention as one examines intellectual disability both as a concept and in the contact of individual assessment, self fulfilling prophecy is very important in this issue in terms of teachers treating children differently based on background. 21. 2% respectively: minority children from poor environments tend to have lower educational and occupational expectations than their caucasian counterparts from more advantaged neighborhoods research suggests that early, preschool programs have a beneficial effect on poor children"s cogntivie development and school success poverty increases childs chance to be exposed to toxins and other harmful environmental substances as well as extreme poverty leading to homelessness upper class white 5% birth comlications, where as low ses 15% white and 51% non whites poor adults from racial minority background and parents of children with intellectual disabilite how evident of significant chrnic stress.