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What are the disruptions associated with speech production in ASD is called?
dysprosody
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The statistic in which the differences from the mean are squared (to eliminate negative numbers) before they are added together and divided by their total number is called what?
variance
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What evidence do psychologists put forth in support of the validity of intelligence tests?
because adaptive skills are imprecise.
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What instruments may be used to make a diagnosis of intellectual disability?
intelligence tests
The Vineland Adaptive Behavior scales (social intelligence)
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What fires when a person performs an action and also when the person observes somebody else performing the action?
mirror neurons
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Identify the evidence of the value of secretin as a treatment for autism.
Secretin was proven not to be effective when a double blind study was done. 58 children were treated with a dose and showed no benefit.
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What are included as the known causes of ASD?
ASD doesn't have just one cause. Known causes are fragile-x syndrome, Rett's disorder, genetics and rain abnormalities.
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What is meant by “an autistic individual lacks a theory of mind”?
A failure to appreciate that other people have a different point of reference.
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Individuals with Down syndrome develop brain pathology similar to that found in who by their 30s?
Those with Alzheimer's disease
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Binet and Simon developed an intelligence test in 1905 in response to a request by the government to identify what?
to identify children in need of special education services.
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How would a psychologist describe the behavior of a child with ASD?
- Deficits in social emotional reciprocity
- Deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction.
- Deficits in developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships.
- Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities.
- Symptoms must be present in the early developmental period.
- Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of current functioning.
These disturbances are not better explained by intellectual disability or global developmental delay.
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How would a newborn represent a premature birth?
Either birth before 38 weeks or a birth weight of less than 5 pounds.
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What does research show concerning parents of autistic children?
Researchers have found no differences in the child rearing styles of the parents of children with ASD when compared with those of the parents of normal children.
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What are examples of the eugenics movement in the US?
prior to World War II America limited immigration from southern and eastern Europe, prohibiting interracial marriage, and permitting the forced sterilization of so called defectives: the insane, the diseased, the deformed, the blind, the delinquent, the alcoholic, and primarily the feebleminded. About 60,000 people in the United States were sterilized in involuntarily starting in the 1920's.
The Common wealth of Virginia was a leader in the eugenics movement, second to California. Buck v. Bell- A woman was institutionalized in Virginia colony for Epileptics and feebleminded. To justify her planned sterilization, She was portrayed as morally delinquent and feebleminded ness. The supreme court upheld the Virginia law by a vote of eight to one. Buck was sterilized.
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What amount of alcohol is safe for pregnant women?
none
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Why are rubella, HIV, syphilis, and encephalitis all in the same section of the textbook?
These are all diseases that can infect a fetus or infant and cause neuromuscular problems, sensory impairments, and intellectual disabilities.
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Identify an intellectual disability most likely diagnosed with a form due to a biological origin?
Down syndrome
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What is meant by a false correlation as a result of a referral bias?
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What aspect of Temple Grandin’s life has been of special interest to psychologists?
She was the most successful outcome of classic autism on record
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What is unique about a culture-fair IQ test
They contain material that is equally familiar to people who differ in their ethnicity, native language, or immigrant status.
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How is intellectual disability defined differently in more versus less industrialized countries?
It's different based on differing educational and technological requirements for work.
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xWhat type of therapy would apply a mild electric shock or slap an ASD child?
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What percent of the population falls below the cutoff score for IQ scores in a normal distribution if the cutoff is two standard deviations below the mean?
2%
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What IQ score is required for someone to be diagnosed as having an intellectual disability?
70 or below
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