PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Comorbidity, Fundamental Attribution Error, Developmental Disorder
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Markedly abnormal or impaired development in social interaction and communication and a markedly restricted repertoire of activity and interests. Persistent deficit in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts: nonverbal social interaction, social or emotional reciprocity, developing and maintaining relationships. Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities: stereotyped or repetitive movements. Insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines: highly restricted, fixated interests, hyper-or hyporeactivity to sensory input. 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 (intellectual developmental disorder) or global developmental delay. Intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder frequently co-occur; to make comorbid diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability, social communication should be below that expected for general developmental level. Typical people show false consensus: we exaggerate the extent to which others share our opinions and habits.
