PSYC3331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gestalt Psychology, Social Cognition
Autism
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Right hemisphere brain damage
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Do disorders of social cognition underpin pragmatic language disorders?
Mute
Echolalic
Formal, stiff, language use
Different manifestations of autism
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each involving communication disturbances
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Pretend play
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Empathy
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Social understanding
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Lack of
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False beliefs
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Deception
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Ignorance/knowledge
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Failure of understanding of
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High level, effortful
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Affects social judgments only
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Theory of mind (social cognition)
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Primary disorder in social development
Low level
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Affects every task that relies on coherence
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Seeing global patterns
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Processing information in context (including ToM)
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Weak central coherence
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High level, effortful
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Affects both social and non
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social tasks
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Poor executive function
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Secondary consequence of non
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social deficits
Two explanations for social dysfunction
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Autism and communication
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Point to direct action
Use gesture to moderate behaviour
Supply information
Conceal objects
Have a vocabulary
Can:
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Point to direct attention
Use gesture to moderate thoughts
Supply information to meet listener's needs
Conceal clues to object's whereabouts
Have a vocabulary of mentalising words
Cannot:
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Autistic children
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Right hemisphere damage
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Aphasia
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Loss of dominant word meanings
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Left hemisphere
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Social cognition and communication
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