PSYCH 477 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Environmental Factor, Public Knowledge, Autism Spectrum
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Autism spectrum disorder: new umbrella diagnosis that includes previous. Autism can be defined generally and casually as early developmental impairments that are often qualitatively different from normative children. Dsm-5 criteria: autism spectrum disorder: persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts: (most unique characteristics to autism, oftentimes these characteristics are not associated with any other kind of disorder) Deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction: lack of shared joint attentions i. e. pointing to objects of interest, lack. Deficits in social reciprocity: doesn"t respond to name, doesn"t smile at caregiver, hard/impossible to understand other people"s feelings, fail to understand social rules, fail to develop peer relations; no understanding of nuanced social interaction. They deeply feel things but do not have neural architecture to understand social interactions much less defend themselves against vicious peers. Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities:
