Ben has an IQ of 79 and adaptive behaviors only slightly below-average. She will benefit from a carefully structured education, will be able to live alone as an adult, may marry, but will tend to have some difficulties with some of the demands of adult life. Ben would be diagnosed with a __________ disability.
A. Mild intellectual
B. Borderline
C. Moderate
D. Profound
Answer: B. Borderline
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b. Only Schachter and Singer's theory predicts that your emotional feelings will be weaker. c. Both of these theories predict that your emotional feelings will be weaker. d. Neither of these theories predicts that your emotional feelings will be weaker.
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A) encoding. B) decoding. C) comprehension. D) seriation.
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A) amodal sensory properties B) kinetic depth cues C) contrast sensitivity D) differentiation properties
Lois, a resident at a group home for people with schizophrenia, refuses to eat food or take her medications because she believes the staff is poisoning her. What type of delusions is Lois experiencing?
A) onfluence B) self-significance C) persecution or paranoid D) somatic