COGS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Nonverbal Communication, Intellectual Disability

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Cognitive Sciences
• Course: COGS101
• Professor: Roni-Judith Kahana Zweig

Document Summary

What is autism: pervasive developmental disorder, affect a lot of different aspects of cognition, 3 main parts to autism. Repetitive behaviours and restricted interest: huge sculptor variation people with autism can be very different from one another. One can meet the communication criteria not speaking at all. One can meet the criteria as above by having difficulties having conversation: difficulties from breaking your everyday routine. Autistic disturbance of affective contact (cid:862)the outsta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g (cid:858)pathog(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272)(cid:859), fu(cid:374)da(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal disorder is the (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)(cid:859)s i(cid:374)a(cid:271)ility to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations. (cid:863: asperger (1944) Autistic psychopathy in childhood (cid:862)the (cid:272)hildre(cid:374) i (cid:449)ill prese(cid:374)t all ha(cid:448)e i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) a fu(cid:374)da(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal distur(cid:271)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h results i(cid:374) se(cid:448)ere a(cid:374)d (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272) diffi(cid:272)ulties of so(cid:272)ial i(cid:374)tegratio(cid:374). (cid:863) Autism spectrum disorder (dsm-5: social communication (all three must be present) Deficits in developing and maintaining social relationships: behaviour and interests (at least two present)