Student’s name: Kosma Chałas

Based on a lecture on social development:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8BiE6X7600&feature=channel

SG 5

1. What are the social adaptive mechanisms dr. Klin describes?

   1. Biological Motion

   2. Eye Fixation

2. Early diagnosis and thus early intervention will optimize the child’s outcome.

3. Autism is a disorder of intellectual disability.

   1. False

4. Looking at something means thinking about

5. Which individual would be most socially competent?

   1. The one, who focuses his/her attention on another person’s eyes

6. Why, according to dr Klin’s experiments, children with autism spend most time looking at another person’s mouth?

Because they understand others by language.

1. What is the interrater reliability of experienced clinicians in diagnosing children with autism?

   1. Very good

2. Autism can be viewed as a disorder in which the development is disrupted, which makes ASD a rather unitary family of conditions.

3. List three things that you found most interesting from dr Klin’s lecture.

   1. Audio-visual synchrony in life of autistics

   2. Difference between autistic children and regular children when it comes to focusing on another person face

   3. That autistics are learning about the world just as regular people, but in another way.