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Direct linkMorsanyi, Kinga; Handley, Simon J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
Reasoning about problems with empirically false content can be hard, as the inferences that people draw are heavily influenced by their background knowledge. However, presenting empirically false premises in a fantasy context helps children and adolescents to disregard their beliefs, and to reason on the basis of the premises. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Inferences, Fantasy
Williams, Diane L.; Mazefsky, Carla A.; Walker, Jon D.; Minshew, Nancy J.; Goldstein, Gerald – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
Abstract thinking is generally highly correlated with problem-solving ability which is predictive of better adaptive functioning. Measures of conceptual reasoning, an ecologically-valid laboratory measure of problem-solving, and a report measure of adaptive functioning in the natural environment, were administered to children and adults with and…
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Processes, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving
Morsanyi, Kinga; Handley, Simon J.; Evans, Jonathan S. B. T. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2010
The conjunction fallacy has been cited as a classic example of the automatic contextualisation of problems. In two experiments we compared the performance of autistic and typically developing adolescents on a set of conjunction fallacy tasks. Participants with autism were less susceptible to the conjunction fallacy. Experiment 2 also demonstrated…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Autism, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis
Begeer, Sander; Terwogt, Mark Meerum; Lunenburg, Patty; Stegge, Hedy – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2009
The development of additive ("If only I had done...") and subtractive ("If only I had not done....") counterfactual reasoning was examined in children with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (HFASD) (n = 72) and typically developing controls (n = 71), aged 6-12 years. Children were presented four stories where they could generate…
Descriptors: Autism, Intelligence Quotient, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Thinking Skills
Peer reviewedDykens, Elisabeth; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1991
This evaluation of thought disorders in 11 high functioning autistic young adults and older adolescents found poverty of speech, poor reality testing, perceptual distortions, and areas of cognitive slippage. In comparison with a schizophrenic reference group, autistic subjects demonstrated more poverty of speech and less illogic as well as similar…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Cognitive Processes, Logical Thinking
Peer reviewedJarrold, Christopher; Russell, James – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1997
Time taken to count stimuli was compared among three groups each composed of 22 elementary-aged children (with autism, with moderate learning difficulties, and normally developing). Results suggest that children with autism showed a tendency toward an analytic level of processing. While groups differed on measures of counting speeds, children…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
