Psychology Dictionary of Arguments

Home Screenshot Tabelle Begriffe

 
Autism: Autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder, manifests in social and communication challenges. Varying in severity, autism's exact cause remains unclear. See also Social behavior, Learning, Attention.
_____________
Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
Author Concept Summary/Quotes Sources

Bruno Bettelheim on Autism - Dictionary of Arguments

Slater I 148
Autism/Bettelheim: Bettelheim’s theory of the “refrigerator mother,” (…) posited that emotionless parenting style causes autism to develop.
VsBettelheim: This theory, which notoriously turned out to be unfounded, went on having an important impact on families and patients alike and influenced research on autism for a significant number of years.
>Autism research
, >S. Baron-Cohen, >F. Happé.
Concomitantly though, researchers influenced by the cognitive revolution strove to find cognitively based explanations of autism through rigorous experimentations on perception, memory, and language (for a review of these early cognitive studies, see Prior, 1979)(1). Until the mid-1980s however, such approaches remained relatively scarce and there were virtually no cognitive theories accounting for autistic symptomatology. As Baron-Cohen et al. themselves put it in 1985: “So far, nobody has had any idea of how to characterise [underlying cognitive] mechanisms of autism in even quasi-computational terms” (Baron-Cohen, Leslie, & Frith, U. 1985(2) , p. 38).
>Autism/psychological theories.


1. Prior, M. R. (1979). Cognitive abilities and disabilities in infantile autism: A review.Journa! of Abnormal Child Psychology, 7,357—380.
2. Baron-Cohen, S., Leslie, A., & Frith, U. (1985). Does the autistic child have a “theory of mind.” Cognition,21, 13—125.


Coralie Chevallier, “Theory of Mind and Autism. Beyond Baron-Cohen et al’s. Sally-Anne Study”, in: Alan M. Slater and Paul C. Quinn (eds.) 2012. Developmental Psychology. Revisiting the Classic Studies. London: Sage Publications

_____________
Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Bettelheim, Bruno
Slater I
Alan M. Slater
Paul C. Quinn
Developmental Psychology. Revisiting the Classic Studies London 2012


Send Link

Authors A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   Z  


Concepts A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   Y   Z