A Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder Is Laughing but Sees

question 108

Multiple Choice

A child with autism spectrum disorder is laughing but sees another child crying. When asked what the other child is feeling, the child with autism is MOST likely to say:

• A) "sadness," because of perseveration of sameness.
• B) "sadness," because of pronominal reversal.
• C) "happiness," because of lack of responsiveness.
• D) "happiness," because of mind-blindness.

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Definitions:

Coefficient Of Determination

A statistical metric, typically denoted as R², that measures the proportion of the variance for a dependent variable that's predicted from the independent variable(s) in a regression model.

SSE

Sum of Squared Errors, a measure used in statistical analysis to quantify the discrepancy between the data and an estimation model.

SST

Total sum of squares in statistical analysis, measuring the total variation in the observed data.

Least Squares Estimate

A method in statistics for estimating the best-fitting line through a set of points by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between observed and estimated values.