Describe common social and communication pathways in children with ASD
What will be an ideal response?
• Most commonly a lifelong disability with continual impairments in both social interactions and communication
• Symptoms usually appear and peak around age 2-4
• Improvement can be seen in social and communication areas, with most improvements seen early in development
• Some children show major rapid improvements in both areas ("bloomers")
• 15-30% show regression; lose previously acquired skills either abruptly or more gradually; some lose skills in adolescence due to seizures
• Children with ASD continue to have significant difficulties in both areas and have more need for ongoing support than children with intellectual developmental disabilities
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a. availability heuristic b. base rate fallacy c. confirmation bias d. proving paradox
Memory is considered to
a. involve storage of information as in a bank vault. b. operate just like a video recorder. c. be a perfect replication of our experiences. d. be an interpretative process. e. be a permanent form of information storage.
Which of these would be the best technique for determining which cortical brain areas are active during speech?
A. magnetoencephalography B. magnetic resonance imaging C. transcranial magnetic stimulation D. positron emission tomography
Which of the following fields had the greatest impact on the Earth's population explosion in the last 10,000 years?
a. Medical b. Agriculture c. Architecture d. Domesticity