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All right.
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So this question is asking us to identify a term that the dsm -5 now uses as a diagnostic label for what was once referred as mental retardation.
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We're given four options, autism and developmental disabilities, lowered intelligence, intellectual disability, and cognitive disruption.
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So to really get at this question, we have to understand, well, what the heck is the dsm -5? and the dsm -5 basically stands for the diagnostic and statistical manual of psychological disorder.
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And there are different, i should say, i guess, manuals or books to it, dsm -5 being the fifth one.
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And basically what this book tells us, or it essentially lists all the known psychological disorders, and it gives us its symptoms and means of diagnosis in terms of categorizing what constitutes a specific mental disorder.
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So what the dsm -5 would reveal to us is specific cognitive or mental disorders and the associative means of diagnosing them.
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And in order to better understand this question is to remember what characterizes mental retardation.
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And this is to note that mental retardation is not a term to use anymore.
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So basically, mental retardation is connected to.
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The iq scores and iq testing in that people who were once regarded as mentally retarded exhibited iq scores below 70.
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So this indicates very much significant delays in development, but also cognition, and they also have very weak means of adapting in terms of functioning and basically meeting what is socially acceptable, as i would say, normal.
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And this is very much contributes to the stigma against mental health, which is a totally different conversation for another time.
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So again, just going back to the question, we're looking for the term that is now more acceptable to use than mental retardation and is listed in the dsm -5.
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So what's notable in not really belonging or not really, i guess, defining what we would term as mental retardation is a, autism and developmental disabilities.
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Autism is a totally different mental disorder in that it touches more on being characterized by social interaction and communication.
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It doesn't really have much to do with developmental delays, but a symptom of it or a characteristic of it is being developmentally delayed, but not essentially in the iq sort of sense that we typically understand.
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The difficulty or the deficiency is mainly within social interactions and communication.
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And developmental disease follows under this because autism, autism, is a developmental disorder.
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And because of that, a isn't a right answer.
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It's also important to note that some autistic kids also exhibit some sort of savant syndrome...