PSYC 391 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psychopathy, 6 Years, Visual Search

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 391
• Professor: Grace Fullerton

Document Summary

Psyc 391 week 8 lecture on asd. In 1943 kanner first published a description of children that he believed suffered from. Observations based on 11 (also see 1971 follow-up: treated people like objects, showed characteristic patterns of speech and language use, displayed immediate and delayed echolalia. Reversal of pronoun use (you for i: obsessive insistence on sameness, lack of spontaneity and imagination, good rote memory. No dysmorphic signs, thought to be normally intelligent". Unusual parental personality traits (but no cause-effect relationship drawn: aloneness from the beginning of life makes it difficult to attribute the whole picture to the manner of early parent-child relationship. Hans asperger: the autism spectrum his paper on autistic psychopathy . One year after kanner"s publication has asperger (a physician from vienna) published: circumscribed interests, motor delays. Leo kanner noticed a lack of parental warmth and attachment to their autistic children.