How might mind-blindness explain some of the social deficits shown by children with autism spectrum disorder?
What will be an ideal response?
Mind-blindness is the failure to understand that others have mental states. This lapse prevents them from understanding others’ motivations and makes social interaction much more inscrutable. It also may result in challenges in communication (particularly pragmatics) that relies in large part on understanding what has not been said (and others’ intentions) in the conversation.
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An outgrowth of the Rogerian Person-centered theory and group approach is its providing a foundation for which of the following parent education programs?
a. PET b. STEP c. DUSO d. Active Parenting
Which of the following best describes the social skills training approach to treating alcohol-related disorders?
a) An approach used to teach client lacking social skills that may be triggering alcohol use b) An approach used to help clients repair relationships that may have been damaged because of alcohol abuse c) An approach used to teach clients skills to resist the pressures of alcohol in social situations d) An approach to help clients create a schedule of social activities to distract from alcohol temptations
Herman von Helmholtz described the unconscious reconstruction of what our past taught us about an object as:
a. restructuring objects. b. psychic stimulation. c. cognitive discovery. d. unconscious inference.
According to Adler, what are the origins of social interest?
a. Like introverts and extroverts, people must be born with social interest. b. People are not born with social interest; they learn it from their parents. c. Social interest is a category of vocational personality. d. Social interest is an innate aptitude that develops with positive life experiences. e. Improvement in one area of social interest invariably results in problems in some other area.