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Solutions For Abnormal Psychology Chapter 12 Problem 5TY

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Solution 1

Intellectual disability as the name indicates it is the inability of a child to learn new things as fast as the normal children. In this experiences difficulty in the daily functioning and will be also dull in the studies. The child of age 10 years with the intellectual disability behave as 3 or 4 year child.

Intellectual disability may be due to autism, Down syndrome, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and cerebral palsy.

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Covert sensitization and modeling are the psychosocial methods to treat intellectual ability.

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Hence the option d is not correct.

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Intellectual disability is an irreversible disorder but many children can learn basic functioning and academic skills by psycho education like teaching skills, community adjustment etc.

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Hence the option c is not correct.

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Behavioral procedures such as shaping and chaining allow children to learn simple tasks such as putting n pair of pants etc.

Shaping means rewarding successive approximations of desired behavior and chaining means to put together all the simple tasks.

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Hence the correct option is .