The Observation That Children with Down Syndrome May Alternate Between

question 54

Multiple Choice

 The observation that children with Down syndrome may alternate between periods of gain and functioning and periods of little or no advance is the ____.

• A) functioning difference hypothesis
• B) variance hypothesis
• C) variance observation
• D) slowing and stability hypothesis

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Definitions:

Id

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest.

Superego

In psychoanalytic theory, it represents the ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates.

Oedipus Complex

According to Freud, a boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.

Identification

The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos.