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When is autism its most severe according to Kanner (1943) and Asperger (1944)?
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In infancy, adolescence
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In adulthood
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In elderly age
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Is autism generally diagnosed before or after 30 months (2.5 years old)?
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Before 30 months old
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After 30 months old
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Are there ethnic or socioeconomic differences in people with autism or Asperger's syndrome?
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Do autistic people show indifference?
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Do autistic people have a tendency to imitate their own and other people's words (echoliac)?
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Do autistic people autistic people avoid eye contact?
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Do autistic people play with other children?
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Do autistic people lack creative (or pretend) play?
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Do autistic people do everything well, or only some things very well?
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Everything very well
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Some things very well
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Do autistic people talk incessantly about one particular topic?
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In the original characterisation of autistic symptoms, there were a _____ of symptoms (Wing & Gould, 1979).
Pregunta 12
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Highlight the three cognitive impairments involved in autism or Asperger's syndrome.
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Social interaction
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Communication
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Imagination
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Language
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Perception
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Rationalisation
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Are autistic symptoms on a spectrum?
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________ ________ ________ is a catch-all term in which to cast children who exhibit a certain number and severity of autistic traits.
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Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD-NOS) (Not otherwise specified)
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Persistent Developmental Disorder (PDD-NOS) (Not otherwise specified)
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Predilection Developmental Disorder (PDD-NOS) (Not otherwise specified)
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Which end of the spectrum is Asperger's syndrome on, high or low?
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Kanner's autism is:
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On the low-end, and a severe variation
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On the high-end, and a lighter variation
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Moderate, and features a multitude of variations
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Severe, and on the low-end of the spectrum
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Is moderate, and has different degrees of variability
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Lighter, and on the higher end of the spectrum
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High-functioning autism, or Asperger's syndrome is:
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On the higher end, and has a variation of symptoms
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In the middle, and has differing degrees of variability
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Severe, and on the lower end of the spectrum
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Are the causes of autism known?
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The refrigerator mothers theory argues that autism is caused by a lack of maternal warmth. Is this theory correct?
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Bad parenting (or maltreatment) has been found to impair Theory of Mind, but does it cause autism? Does it correlate to believe that children are autistic?
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A Theory of Mind deficit refers to:
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A Central Coherence deficit refers to:
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Do children with autism (CWAs) understand false belief?
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Yes, but it takes a lot longer
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No, they do not have a full understanding
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According to Baron-Cohen, Leslie, and Frith (1985), do the children with autism (CWAs) who pass false belief tasks have a full understanding of Theory of Mind?
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Are the demands of higher-order relations tasks different from false belief tasks?
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Research (Bowler, 1992; Bruner & Feldman, 1991; Happé, 1995) suggests that success on verbal false belief tasks for CWAs is:
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Unusually conscious and logical (eg, "mental arithmetic"), may not reflect real understanding
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Greatly advanced, and well beyond others who do not have autism
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The deficits in autism in integration of information:
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Are at different levels
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Are at the same level
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________ development of central coherence is drawing together diverse information to construct higher-level meaning.
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Is the Weak Central Coherence theory (Frith & Happé, 1994) capable of explaining some aspects of autism or all?
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Do CWAs (or not) draw things into meaningful wholes, according to Shah and Frith (1983)?
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In the Shah and Frith (1983) study for Weak Central Coherence (Frith & Happé, 1994), CWAs are:
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Weak central coherence has advantages when:
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Weak central coherence has disadvantages when:
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In the disambiguation of homographs (eg, "She had a pink bow," "She made a deep bow,") (Frith & Snowling, 1983), CWAs opted for:
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Used the most frequent pronunciation (eg, single words)
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The context to produce pronunciation (eg, sentence meanings)
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Does the Theory of Mind hypothesis account well for the social and communication aspects of autism impairment?
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Does the Central Coherence theory account for some aspects of the triad and non-triad features of autism, as well as the spiky IQ profile?