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KEY FEATURES: A narrative writing style enhances accessibility and keeps readers engaged. Chapters begin and end with relatable examples to make the material more memorable and easier to learn. Chapter-opening learning objectives introduce students to the material and prompt them to identify the key takeaways in their reading. Conclusion sections in each chapter integrate information that students can review to check their comprehension. Chapter-ending discussion and research questions provide opportunities for students to further engage with the material to master chapter content.
Psychological Testing in Determining Disability: Intellectual Disability and the Death Penalty
Psychological Testing in Determining Disability: Intellectual Disability and the Death Penalty
Learning Objectives
- Describe how intellectual disability is defined and who is responsible for defining it
- Discuss how psychological testing is used in identifying intellectual disability
- Explain the concept of normal distribution of intelligence and how it applies to intelligence testing
- Explain how measurement error is accounted for in testing for intellectual disability
- Describe how adaptive functioning is measured
- Identify the problems in measurement of intellectual functioning associated with practice effects
Randi, a fictitious 35-year-old female, is on death row in Texas. She has a long history of learning problems, and her lawyers claim that she is intellectually disabled and therefore exempt from the death penalty. They arranged for her to be evaluated by a forensic psychologist, and the psychologist found ...
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