Lecture 21 Flashcards
Discuss joint attention behaviours in autistic children
They struggle with this, for example protodeclaratives are very rare (showing behaviours like pointing), they also don’t use protoimperatives like eye contact when they want an object to be retrieved. This is because they don’t understand attentional states.
Discuss language in autsim
They use less attention/cognitive terms which seems to be linked with ToM. They don’t understand irony or metaphors either because they don’t understand that other people have different mental states. The differences in receptive language between typical and atypical children grow with age and these differences aren’t presence in ADHD children.
List 3 impairments autistic children have
Social interaction difficulties like eye contact, joint attention like pointing, emotional reciprocity.
Restrictive imagination and repetitive behaviours: lack of pretend, symbolic play or if present, it is repetitive and repetitive mannerisms. They are unable to perform meta-representations in pretend play.
Language and communication impairments like only communicating own needs, having one sided conversations and having pronoun reversal.
Is the modularity idea strictly genetic?
No, it’s a predisposition of attentional biases that guide development. Slight differences in these early biases can lead to different developmental trajectories (task performance based on age and iq comparing typical and atypical) which will have a knock on effect on different abilities. Therefore, it’s important to understand how developmental disorders develop rather than just looking at the end product. For example, face recognition is of a similar ability among typically developing children and children with williams syndrome at 80 months, but by 130 months, these children are significantly more impaired than typically developing children.
What is the traditional method to research developmental disorders?
It’s usually measured by matched samples between typical and atypical development. IQ and age is usually matched. However, one should never do these sorts of studies if they aren’t longitudinal as problems arise at different parts of development.
What are the developmental stages of ToM?
Joint attention at 1 year
Pretend play at 2 years
Understanding false belief at 4 years
What are the developmental stages of ToM?
Joint attention at 1 year
Pretend play at 2 years
Understanding false belief at 4 years
