COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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Question
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has an exceptional need/intellectual disability
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has savant syndrome
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will eventually achieve self supporting social and vocational skills
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is a divergent thinker
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Detailed explanation-1: -Intellectual functioning, or IQ, is usually measured by a test called an IQ test. The average score is 100. People scoring below 70 to 75 are thought to have an intellectual disability.
Detailed explanation-2: -It means that 50 percent of the variation in intelligence within a group of people is attributable to genetic factors. In other words, heritability never pertains to an individual, only to why people differ from one another.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was found that identical twins have IQ scores that are more similar than the IQ scores of fraternal twins. Even identical twins who were raised in separate households were found to have IQ’s that were more similar than that of fraternal twins raised together.
Detailed explanation-4: -What does it mean to say that the heritability of a trait is approximately 50 percent? it means that of the variation in the trait within a group of people, 50 percent can be attributed to heredity.