Compared with Typically Developing Children, Children with Autism

question 87

Multiple Choice

Compared with typically developing children, children with autism

• A) more often engage in social referencing.
• B) are better at distinguishing facial expressions.
• C) more often imitate an adult's novel behaviors.
• D) rarely use mental-state words such as think, feel, and know.

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Definitions:

Percentile Score

The percentage of people someone scores higher than on a scale or test; a score at the 90th percentile means someone scores higher than 90% of the people who took the scale.

Normal Distribution

A symmetrical bell-shaped distribution in which most of the data points cluster around the mean, with decreasing frequency toward the tails.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a given set of data, representing the most common outcome within that data set.

Convergent Validity

The degree to which two measures of constructs that theoretically should be related, are in fact related.