ASD EXAM EXAMPREP TESTED QUESTIONS
AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ Autism encompasses a continuum of ___________ disorders.
Answer: neurodevelopment
◉ Autism is characterized by difficulty in 3 areas.
Answer: 1. social interaction
2. nonverbal and verbal communication
3. Stereotypical and repetitive behaviors
◉ Bleuler.
Answer: 1st to use term autism in 1908.
He used the term to describe a schizophrenic patient who was
withdrawn into his own world.
According to Bleuler, Austin meant morbid self admiration and
withdrawn within self.
◉ Rimland.
,Answer: A psychologist who was also a parent of a child with autism
disagreed with Kanner and Bettelheim.
Autism:The Syndrome and its Implications for a Neural Theory
Behavior in 1964.
His book revolutionized the field of autism by providing the autistic
community with guidance on how to understand and treat these
individuals.
◉ Kanner.
Answer: Child psychiatrist
He studied 11 children in 1943 who all had features of difficulties in
social interactions, routine changes, good memory, sensitivity to
stimuli (especially sound), good intellectual potential, tendency to
repeat words, difficulties in impulsive activities.
He also published a paper called "Autistic Disturbances of Affective
Contact"
◉ Asperger.
Answer: Described a milder form of autism in1944, which is what
we now know as Aspergers.
, He reported cases of all highly intelligible boys that had problems
with social interaction and specific obsessive interests.
His work was translated to English in the 1980s and was brought to
light.
◉ Bettleheim.
Answer: Studied the effect of 3 therapy sessions of children he called
autistic.
He claimed that the problem with the children was the fact that they
had "cold mothers" or "refrigerator mothers"
Bettelheim and Kanner worked together to hypothesize that cold
mother was the cause of autism.
◉ Wing.
Answer: Conducted landmark studies of autism that changed our
conceptions of the condition.
Her early work led to the triad of impairments that came to define
autism.
AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ Autism encompasses a continuum of ___________ disorders.
Answer: neurodevelopment
◉ Autism is characterized by difficulty in 3 areas.
Answer: 1. social interaction
2. nonverbal and verbal communication
3. Stereotypical and repetitive behaviors
◉ Bleuler.
Answer: 1st to use term autism in 1908.
He used the term to describe a schizophrenic patient who was
withdrawn into his own world.
According to Bleuler, Austin meant morbid self admiration and
withdrawn within self.
◉ Rimland.
,Answer: A psychologist who was also a parent of a child with autism
disagreed with Kanner and Bettelheim.
Autism:The Syndrome and its Implications for a Neural Theory
Behavior in 1964.
His book revolutionized the field of autism by providing the autistic
community with guidance on how to understand and treat these
individuals.
◉ Kanner.
Answer: Child psychiatrist
He studied 11 children in 1943 who all had features of difficulties in
social interactions, routine changes, good memory, sensitivity to
stimuli (especially sound), good intellectual potential, tendency to
repeat words, difficulties in impulsive activities.
He also published a paper called "Autistic Disturbances of Affective
Contact"
◉ Asperger.
Answer: Described a milder form of autism in1944, which is what
we now know as Aspergers.
, He reported cases of all highly intelligible boys that had problems
with social interaction and specific obsessive interests.
His work was translated to English in the 1980s and was brought to
light.
◉ Bettleheim.
Answer: Studied the effect of 3 therapy sessions of children he called
autistic.
He claimed that the problem with the children was the fact that they
had "cold mothers" or "refrigerator mothers"
Bettelheim and Kanner worked together to hypothesize that cold
mother was the cause of autism.
◉ Wing.
Answer: Conducted landmark studies of autism that changed our
conceptions of the condition.
Her early work led to the triad of impairments that came to define
autism.
