Discuss the developmental-versus-difference controversy regarding the development of children with intellectual disability
What will be an ideal response?
Simply stated, the developmental-versus-difference controversy is this: Do all children regardless of intellectual impairments—progress through the same developmental milestones in a similar sequence, but at different rates? Or do children with intellectual disability develop in a different, less sequential, and less organized fashion?
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The major reason for the increase in sexually explicit material in the 1960s was
a. a large increase in the supply of it b. a large demand for it c. an increase in crime d. a decrease in the number of people who go to church
In one elementary school curriculum, mathematical variables first appear in the sixth grade. According to Piaget, they are not introduced in the fifth grade because:
A) Preoperational children cannot reason with post conventional thinking B) children in the concrete operational stage cannot reason with hypothetical entities C) children are in capable of understanding the concept of conservation and reversibility until the beginning of the formal operational period D) Preoperational children lacks The capability of symbolic thinking
In a 1979 Massachusetts court case, the court ruled that hospitalized mental patients have __________.
A. a right to refuse medication in any situation B. a right to refuse medication except when it is an emergency in which the patients' behaviors pose physical risks to themselves or others C. a right to refuse only medications deemed by the court to be "high-risk" medications D. no right to refuse medications that their caregivers deem a necessary and appropriate part of treatment