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ASD 1-3 exam Questions and Answers
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Leo kanner and Hans Asperger - ✔✔first scientists to identify ASD. First was in america with his paper
second was in Austria
Kanner's early descriptions of ASD - ✔✔-profound lack of affective contact with others
-intense resistance to change in routines
-fascination with manipulating objects
-muteness or abnormalities of language
-superior rote memory
Asperger's early descriptions - ✔✔-impairment of social interaction
-all-absorbing interests
-imposition of repetitive routines on self and other
-inappropriate use of speech
- monologues on special interests
psychoanalysis view on autism - ✔✔concluded that autism was a form of neurosis caused by disturbed
mother-child relationships. The stigmatizing and unjustifiable term 'refrigerator mother' indicates the
supposed origins of the impaired relationship.
Author. Emily Charlene, ©2025 All Rights Reserved.
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Disapproval of psychoanalysis theory concerning autism - ✔✔By the 1970s, this theory had been
disproved by studies showing that people with autism have significant abnormalities of brain structure
and function
early Psychiatric view of autism - ✔✔conceived of autism as a psychotic condition with a physical, brain-
related cause. It was mistakenly thought that the odd behaviors of young children with autism were early
manifestations of schizophrenia, and they were accordingly diagnosed as cases of childhood
schizophrenia, or childhood psychosis.
Early diagnostic tool developed in psychiatric mindset for "childhood schizophrenia" - ✔✔Creak's nine
points
1.Gross and sustained impairment of emotional relationships.
2. Serious retardation, with islets of normal or exceptional intellectual function.
3. Apparent unawareness of personal identity.
4. Pathological preoccupation with particular objects.
Sustained resistance to change.
5. Abnormal response to perceptual stimuli.
6. Acute and illogical anxiety.
7. Speech absent or underdeveloped.
8. Distorted motility [movement] patterns.
Disproval of childhood schizophrenia theory - ✔✔the suggestion that children with autism were
suffering from childhood schizophrenia was disproved by a study of a large group of children, all of
whom had been diagnosed as suffering from 'childhood schizophrenia/psychosis' (Kolvin, 1971). Kolvin
Author. Emily Charlene, ©2025 All Rights Reserved.
ASD 1-3 exam Questions and Answers
100% Pass
Leo kanner and Hans Asperger - ✔✔first scientists to identify ASD. First was in america with his paper
second was in Austria
Kanner's early descriptions of ASD - ✔✔-profound lack of affective contact with others
-intense resistance to change in routines
-fascination with manipulating objects
-muteness or abnormalities of language
-superior rote memory
Asperger's early descriptions - ✔✔-impairment of social interaction
-all-absorbing interests
-imposition of repetitive routines on self and other
-inappropriate use of speech
- monologues on special interests
psychoanalysis view on autism - ✔✔concluded that autism was a form of neurosis caused by disturbed
mother-child relationships. The stigmatizing and unjustifiable term 'refrigerator mother' indicates the
supposed origins of the impaired relationship.
Author. Emily Charlene, ©2025 All Rights Reserved.
, 2|Page
Disapproval of psychoanalysis theory concerning autism - ✔✔By the 1970s, this theory had been
disproved by studies showing that people with autism have significant abnormalities of brain structure
and function
early Psychiatric view of autism - ✔✔conceived of autism as a psychotic condition with a physical, brain-
related cause. It was mistakenly thought that the odd behaviors of young children with autism were early
manifestations of schizophrenia, and they were accordingly diagnosed as cases of childhood
schizophrenia, or childhood psychosis.
Early diagnostic tool developed in psychiatric mindset for "childhood schizophrenia" - ✔✔Creak's nine
points
1.Gross and sustained impairment of emotional relationships.
2. Serious retardation, with islets of normal or exceptional intellectual function.
3. Apparent unawareness of personal identity.
4. Pathological preoccupation with particular objects.
Sustained resistance to change.
5. Abnormal response to perceptual stimuli.
6. Acute and illogical anxiety.
7. Speech absent or underdeveloped.
8. Distorted motility [movement] patterns.
Disproval of childhood schizophrenia theory - ✔✔the suggestion that children with autism were
suffering from childhood schizophrenia was disproved by a study of a large group of children, all of
whom had been diagnosed as suffering from 'childhood schizophrenia/psychosis' (Kolvin, 1971). Kolvin
Author. Emily Charlene, ©2025 All Rights Reserved.
