What is the functional level of individuals with profound intellectual disability?

A) They require intense care as children, but become self-sufficient by adolescence.
B) They need considerable training to learn to perform self-care activities (e.g., eating, dressing).
C) They require only moderate supervision throughout their life.
D) Their functional level is superior to normal or typical children.

B) They need considerable training to learn to perform self-care activities (e.g., eating, dressing).

Psychology

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a. always differentiate clearly between a member and a nonmember of a category. b. are the most efficient to access. c. contain a small number of individual exemplars and their common characteristics. d. are based on differences rather than similarities. e. are more subordinate than superordinate.

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According to Le Bon (1895), a number of factors contribute to the development of a ‘collective mind’, a concept from which the contagion theory of collective behaviour arose. Which is NOT one of the factors that Le Bon believed promoted this collective mind?

a. suggestibility b. a sense of decreased power c. a sense of anonymity d. a sense of decreased personal responsibility e. a liberation of animalistic instincts

Psychology