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Cognitive psychology and mental handicap
Author(s) -
O'CONNOR N.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1987.tb01378.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cognitive reframing , neuropathology , cognition , mental handicap , experimental psychology , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , medicine , disease , pathology
. The psychology of mental handicap has been influenced by two traditions in general psychology, pychometric measurement following Binet and experimental psychology first initiated by Wundt. The weakness of the former is its lack of explanatory power and, of the latter, its lack of sound alignment with the neuropathology of mental handicap. A closer association of experimental psychology and neuropathology might help us to reframe our concepts of intelligence, cognitive functions and their handicaps.