Students with Autism May Have Difficulty with the Social and Sensory

question 14

True/False

Students with Autism may have difficulty with the social and sensory demands of physical education classes.

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Definitions:

Latent Learning

Learning that occurs without any obvious conditioning or immediate display of behavior and manifests later when suitable.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening of a conditioned response that results in the behavior decreasing or disappearing.

Generalization

The ability to apply the lessons learned from specific instances to broader, similar situations without being explicitly taught for every situation.

Positive Reinforcement

A process in behavior analysis where the probability of a behavior occurring is increased by following it with the addition of a reinforcing stimulus.