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Question 7

The following are three behavioral characteristics often observed in autistic individuals.

  • A Focusing cycles of attention on local visual features of a puzzle rather than perceiving the overall global picture
  • B Difficulty predicting how a peer will feel because of an inability to conceptualise their mental perspective
  • C Extreme difficulty planning, organising, and executing a sequence of steps to complete a complex task

Name the cognitive explanation of autism that best explains each of the characteristics, A, B and C above. Label your answers A, B and C.

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Development of social cognition Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Development of social cognition

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