Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Asperger Syndrome, Brain Damage

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Very rare, less than 100 reports of prodigious ability. 6 imes more likely than in males in females. 1 in 23 relaives of savants: sensory deprivaion. Auisic kids most likely to develop syndrome (1 in 10) H week)but 90% do not: reinforcement. Social atenion serves as reward for display of talent. Many crave atenion without developing excepional talent: lateralizaion. If damage occurs while let sill developing (10th-18th) neurons in the let die. Right hemisphere recruits neural connecions across the corpus callosum. Auisic disorder: incidence: 1 in 50, more common in males iq>35, symptoms develop before 36 months. No eye contact, even with mom: impaired communicaion. Echolalia, people repeated what other person says: restricted behaviour, interests. Unlikely to be social, not poor parening: not vaccines (mmr, geneic tag, if one child has auism, risk increases by factor of 10,000, brain damage likely, courchesne (1991) Cortex and white mater overload the cerebellum and destroys purkinje.