DISTURBANCES OF INTELLIGENCE Flashcards
the ability to understand, recal, mobilized, and constructively integrates previous learning in meeting new situations.
Intelligence
Lack of inteligence to a degree in which there is interference with social and vocational performance
Mental Retardation
I.Q. of 50 or 55 to approximately 70
Mild
I.Q. of 35 or 40 to 50 or 55
Moderate
I.Q. of 20 or 25 to 35 or 40
Severe
I.Q. below 20 or 25
Profound
organic and global deterioration of inte lectual functioning without clouding of consciousness
Dementia
clinical features resembling a dementia not caused by an organic mental dysfunction most often caused by depression.
Pseudodementia
literal thinking limited use of metaphor without understanding of nuances of meaning one dimensional thought.
Concrete thinking
ability to appreciate nuances of meaning multidimensional thinking with ability to use metaphors and hypotheses appropriately.
Abstract thinking