![]() Most of us realize that reading requires us to do a lot of sophisticated things: perceive and recognize symbols in the appropriate order, move our eyes in a coordinated way across the page, call up the appropriate phonological associations (e.g. This may be false, but implies the relationship between theories of mind and social success may be more complex than is often supposed.Ĥ) What perceptual abilities are necessary for social success? What perceptual abilities are helpful, but not necessary, for social success? But does it help at all? In my completely anecdotal experience, high intelligence tends to lead to more elaborate explicit theories about others' minds, but lower social success (except around others with similarly high intelligence). If explicit "theory of mind" alone produced social success, most people with Aspergers would be social geniuses, and many NTs would be social dunces. If this is true, we should be wary both of exaggerated claims about our own "mind reading" capabilities and autistic peoples' social cognition deficits.ģ) We have fairly sophisticated concepts about our own and other peoples' minds, but how much do these actually influence our real-world social behavior? Does it matter whether these concepts are implicit or explicit? Do people with more elaborate explicit theories of other people's minds have better, worse, or no difference in their social success? We assume that neurotypicals have knowledge about other people's mental states that others do not have, but do they? Maybe they're as clueless as autistic people, but they have better procedural abilities-e.g., automatic facial expressions and gestures, approach/withdrawal behaviors, mirroring others' actions, and timing. We've assumed that they have extremely accurate "mind reading" ability, but everyday experience and certain lab experiments would suggest that we are quite inaccurate, sometimes approaching chance. For clinical researchers trying to develop social skills programs, it determines what behaviors to teach.Ģ) How much does the average neurotypical adult actually understand about other people's thoughts, feelings, and motivations? How much better are they than chance? What do they understand that an autistic person does not? In diagnostic research, this may affect the characteristics by which we recognize developmental delays. Do they have any common behaviors across the same?Įven if the personal characteristics of socially successful people are the same across all cultures, they might express these through very different behaviors depending on the culture. If not, we should be wary about any claims of an evolved "social module" in the brain, claims that people with autism lack such a module, and studies that compare autism prevalence rates across cultures.ī. Norms about appropriate display rules for emotions, body language, etc. ![]() Norms about the goals for social interactions Do socially successful people have any characteristics across cultural and subcultural:īeliefs about the mind, psychology, emotions, etc. ![]() We're trying to understand what goes wrong in autism without understanding, even among neurotypicals, what social success is, what contributes to it, or even whether it exists in any sort of universal way.ġ) Is there anything universally human about social success?Ī. See product file for clip art credits.It seems to me that research on social ability and cognition, particularly in autism, has skipped over some crucial questions. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). ![]() This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Each teacher should share their experiences with the responses, as well.Ĭopyright © 2016-22. The "Suggested Response" pages are a jumping point for teachers. The responses are an opinion in words that elementary age children will understand. This is intended for use in a General Education classroom, with common questions that students have asked over my many years of teaching. In recognition of Autism Awareness Month and all year long, here are 101 Question Cards about Autism in simple language with kid-friendly answers.
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