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1
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What is Intellectual disability? (ID)

A

IQ below 55

2
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What is mild ID?

A

IQ between 55-70

3
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What is Mild-to-borderline ID (MBID)?

A

IQ between 70-85 & limited adaptive functioning

4
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What is limited adaptive functioning?

A

Deficits in adaptive functioning that result in faulure to meet developmental and sociocultural standards for personal independence and social responsibility. In one or more activities in daily life.

5
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What are the three domains of adaptive functioning?

A

Conceptual
Social
Practical

6
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Whats the prevalence in society? And in forensic setting?

A

13% and 30-40%
Overrepresentation in forensic setting

Prevalence higher than ASS and ADHD combined

7
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What can you say about school and MBID?

A

Children with borderline intelligence are at risk for chronic educational failure, abscence from school, repetition of grades and dropout or expulsion from school

  • Suspension is one of the best predictors for delinquency
8
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What does MBID look like?

A

Cant see! Is a brain thing.

Often mistaken for other disorders

9
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What underlies MBID?

A

Executive functioning + Social adaptive functioning

10
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What are the 4 different types of attention?

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Sustained attention
Devided attention
Focused attention
Selective attention

11
Q

What are the EFs where it goes wrong in MBID?

A

Attention
Processing speed
Inhibiton
Working memory

12
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What about Stress + EF?

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Stress limits the working memory

- Peer pressure is a huge stressor

13
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What can you say about brain development in adolescence and MBID?

A

Disbalance in limbic system + prefrontal cortex

Even bigger in MBID and always stays

14
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Whats social adaptive functioning?

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  • Emotion recognition
  • Understanding of emotion
  • Perspective taking & ToM
  • Social skills
  • Problem solving skills
15
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What are parts of SAF?

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Attention
Selection/encoding
Emotion (good but slow)
Interpretation
Response generation
Response choice
Execution of response
Evaluation of response