PSY 334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Environmental Factor, Nonverbal Communication, Intellectual Disability

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 334
• Professor: Kristin Bernad

Document Summary

Restrictive repetitive now: dsm 5: 2 core domains. Social communication: social-emotional reciprocity, nonverbal communication, developing, maintaining, understanding relationships. Restricted/repetitive behaviors, interest, or activities insistence on sameness: stereotyped motor movements, highly restricted fixated interest, hyper/hypo-reactivity to sensory input. Symptoms must be present early in development (traces of these two doamins), but may not be manifested until social demands exceed their capacity. Have to cause significantly impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning. Symptoms not furthered explained by intellectual disability. Id and autism can and still do co-occur, but need evidence for both; social communication should be below the expected level. Severity specifiers: level 1: support, level 2: substantial support, level 3: very substantial support. Also, lets meet: social communication disorder: domain: social se of verbal and nonverbal communication (have trouble with) Ability to change communication to match context. Understanding what is explicitly stated and nonliteral or ambiguous meanings.