PSYC 2300 Exam #4 questions with
complete solutions 2025/2026
Autism Spectrum Disorders-Social Communication and Interaction primary symptom clusters
with examples - correct answer ✔✔-Socio-Emotional Reciprocity: back and forth
communication, sharing interests, respond to social interactions
-Nonverbal communicative behaviors: eye contact/body language, gestures, facial expressions
-Developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships: adjusting behavior to suit various
social contexts, sharing imaginative play or in making friends
Autism Spectrum Disorders- Restricted Repetitive Patterns of Behavior, Interests, or Activities -
correct answer ✔✔-Stereotyped or repetitive movements: motor stereotypes, lining up toys or
flipping objects, echolalia, idiosyncratic phrases
-Insistence of sameness, inflexible adherence to routines or ritualized patterns of verbal or
nonverbal behavior: extreme distress at small changes, difficulties with transitions between
activities/parts of the day, rigid thinking patterns
-Highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus: being really focused
on bus routes/knowing all the times
-Hyper or hypo reactivity to sensory input or unusual interest in sensory aspects of
environment: apparent indifference to pain/temp, excessive smelling or touching of objects
History of Autism - correct answer ✔✔-Kanner: early infantile autism, preservation of
sameness, refrigerator parents
, -Hans Asperger: identify children with deficit of gemut (autistic psychopathy), distinction
between what ended up being called aspergers and autism
Refrigerator Mother Theory - correct answer ✔✔Parents who are intelligent, obsessive, cold,
mechanical, and detached in their relationship cause autistic children (NOT TRUE)
Theory of Mind - correct answer ✔✔not knowing what others are thinking, know that others
aren't thinking the same things as me
Joint Attention - correct answer ✔✔ability to coordinate attention to a social partner and
object/event of mutual interest; impairment impedes later language development
Myelination (over and underconnectivity) - correct answer ✔✔Decreased myelination, more
front region activity communicating with self and distal underconnectivity, with autism
Vaccination and Autism False Beliefs - correct answer ✔✔-Gut theory: inflammatory bowel
disease related to the onset of the disorder, causal in both bowel disease and autism
-Wakefield published study of 12 children with autism(1998), called press release, lawsuit
against it for a bad sample
-paper was retracted in 2010
Eye Tracking Studies: How People with Autism Direct Their Attention and Take in Info - correct
answer ✔✔-they don't look at eyes as much -look at the shadows or dark/light spots -look at
mouths/movement not eyes
Typical Onset of Autism - correct answer ✔✔Identified by child's second birthday, 12-18 months
detection
Applied Behavioral Analysis - correct answer ✔✔type of therapy that focuses on improving
specific behaviors, such as social skills, communication, reading, and academics as well as
complete solutions 2025/2026
Autism Spectrum Disorders-Social Communication and Interaction primary symptom clusters
with examples - correct answer ✔✔-Socio-Emotional Reciprocity: back and forth
communication, sharing interests, respond to social interactions
-Nonverbal communicative behaviors: eye contact/body language, gestures, facial expressions
-Developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships: adjusting behavior to suit various
social contexts, sharing imaginative play or in making friends
Autism Spectrum Disorders- Restricted Repetitive Patterns of Behavior, Interests, or Activities -
correct answer ✔✔-Stereotyped or repetitive movements: motor stereotypes, lining up toys or
flipping objects, echolalia, idiosyncratic phrases
-Insistence of sameness, inflexible adherence to routines or ritualized patterns of verbal or
nonverbal behavior: extreme distress at small changes, difficulties with transitions between
activities/parts of the day, rigid thinking patterns
-Highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus: being really focused
on bus routes/knowing all the times
-Hyper or hypo reactivity to sensory input or unusual interest in sensory aspects of
environment: apparent indifference to pain/temp, excessive smelling or touching of objects
History of Autism - correct answer ✔✔-Kanner: early infantile autism, preservation of
sameness, refrigerator parents
, -Hans Asperger: identify children with deficit of gemut (autistic psychopathy), distinction
between what ended up being called aspergers and autism
Refrigerator Mother Theory - correct answer ✔✔Parents who are intelligent, obsessive, cold,
mechanical, and detached in their relationship cause autistic children (NOT TRUE)
Theory of Mind - correct answer ✔✔not knowing what others are thinking, know that others
aren't thinking the same things as me
Joint Attention - correct answer ✔✔ability to coordinate attention to a social partner and
object/event of mutual interest; impairment impedes later language development
Myelination (over and underconnectivity) - correct answer ✔✔Decreased myelination, more
front region activity communicating with self and distal underconnectivity, with autism
Vaccination and Autism False Beliefs - correct answer ✔✔-Gut theory: inflammatory bowel
disease related to the onset of the disorder, causal in both bowel disease and autism
-Wakefield published study of 12 children with autism(1998), called press release, lawsuit
against it for a bad sample
-paper was retracted in 2010
Eye Tracking Studies: How People with Autism Direct Their Attention and Take in Info - correct
answer ✔✔-they don't look at eyes as much -look at the shadows or dark/light spots -look at
mouths/movement not eyes
Typical Onset of Autism - correct answer ✔✔Identified by child's second birthday, 12-18 months
detection
Applied Behavioral Analysis - correct answer ✔✔type of therapy that focuses on improving
specific behaviors, such as social skills, communication, reading, and academics as well as
