Two Common Characteristics Ascribed to Persons with IDD Are

question 56

Multiple Choice

Two common characteristics ascribed to persons with IDD are

• A) rigidity and inanity.
• B) unpredictable violence and anxiety.
• C) lack of muscle tone and discoordination.
• D) credulity and gullibility.

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Definitions:

Decentering

A process of shifting away from a Eurocentric or ethnocentric perspective, recognizing the diversity of viewpoints and experiences.

Antiessentialism

The belief that identities or phenomena are not fixed, inherent, or reducible to some core essence but rather constructed through social, cultural, and historical contexts.

Radical Constructionism

An epistemological viewpoint that suggests knowledge and reality are actively constructed by social or cognitive processes.

Radical Deconstructionism

A philosophical approach that seeks to undermine traditional concepts and categories by exposing their contingent nature and questioning the binary oppositions upon which they rely.