PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Prefrontal Cortex, Extraversion And Introversion, Intellectual Disability
3 Feb 2017
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Parents of autistic children (poa) faster on embedded figures test than others. Parents of autistic children are more likely to have systematizing fathers, such as engineers. Male/female brain activity different when empathizing or systematizing: Parents of autistic children show male pattern. Parents of autistic children higher on self reported autistic traits. Brain is over developed in this sense. Leads to fear of world and withdrawal. Cog(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e e(cid:373)pathy (cid:894)ce(cid:895) = u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g others" episte(cid:373)ic (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal states (cid:894)sa(cid:373)e as theory of mind) Emotional empathy (ee) = feeling (cid:449)hat others feel as a result of others" e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s. Autistic symptoms = protection from intense empathetic emotions. Children with autism show more facial affect than other children in empathy paradigm study. Adults with autism show more facial emg affect than other adults when shown expressions of happiness, fear, etc. Children with autism show normal electrodermal response to pictures of distressed people; often look away from such images.
