Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling ApproachA long-awaited book from developmental disorders expert John Morton, Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach makes sense of the many competing theories about what can go wrong with early brain development, causing a child to develop outside the normal range.
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... ability to teach the child. There are other possibilities, however, most obvious of which is that some mothers, perhaps by their presence in the house with the child and the interest that they show, have an effect on the child's ...
... ability to teach the child. There are other possibilities, however, most obvious of which is that some mothers, perhaps by their presence in the house with the child and the interest that they show, have an effect on the child's ...
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... ability, trait or behavioural tendency is at least slightly heritable. In such a world, the claim of partial heritability for something, without some significant support to the causal chain, adds absolutely nothing. By a parallel ...
... ability, trait or behavioural tendency is at least slightly heritable. In such a world, the claim of partial heritability for something, without some significant support to the causal chain, adds absolutely nothing. By a parallel ...
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... abilities that were necessary if the children were going to carry out particular tasks successfully. To start with, what ability was necessary for the child to be able to succeed on typical phoneme segmentation tasks? Let's say that ...
... abilities that were necessary if the children were going to carry out particular tasks successfully. To start with, what ability was necessary for the child to be able to succeed on typical phoneme segmentation tasks? Let's say that ...
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... ability to determine what one does and the power to determine what is experienced referring to the same idea as the ability to determine how one's attention is directed This is an interesting literary convention, not to fatigue the ...
... ability to determine what one does and the power to determine what is experienced referring to the same idea as the ability to determine how one's attention is directed This is an interesting literary convention, not to fatigue the ...
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... abilities to use maps, or differences in skill with verbal reasoning. Certainly, I have difficulty in fully comprehending any complex scientific argument unless I have pencil and paper in hand to help convert it into diagrammatic form ...
... abilities to use maps, or differences in skill with verbal reasoning. Certainly, I have difficulty in fully comprehending any complex scientific argument unless I have pencil and paper in hand to help convert it into diagrammatic form ...
Contents
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A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 2 Introducing Cognition | 20 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 3 Representing Causal Relationships Technical and Formal Considerations | 34 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 4 Autism How Causal Modelling Started | 67 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 5 The What and the How | 98 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 6 Competing Causal Accounts of Autism | 106 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 7 The Problem of Diagnosis | 133 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 8 A Causal Analysis of Dyslexia | 161 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 9 The Hyperkinetic Confusions | 208 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 10 Theories of Conduct Disorder | 227 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 11 Tying in Biology | 247 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 12 To Conclude | 270 |
A Causal Modelling Approach References | 273 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Name Index | 292 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Subject Index | 296 |
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Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach John Morton No preview available - 2005 |
Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach John Morton No preview available - 2008 |
Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach John Morton No preview available - 2005 |
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ability ADHD antisocial behaviour autistic children autistic signs behaviour Figure behaviour genetic behavioural level biological level biological origin biology cognition behaviour Blair brain abnormality brain cognition behaviour brain difference Caspi and Moffitt causal chain causal model cause cause of autism central coherence chapter child claim cognitive deficit cognitive factors cognitive function cognitive level cognitive processes component condition conduct disorder correlation developmental disorders diagnosis diagram Down’s syndrome dyslexia dyslexic effects elements environment environmental example executive dysfunction executive function EXPRAIS false belief task Frith frontal lobe gene genetic GP system hyperactivity hypothesis impairment individual interaction kinds lack language lead learning mechanism mental Morton neural neurons normal development notation particular performance phenotype phonological deficit phonological processing difficulty possible predictions problems psychopathy reason relation represent representation response Ritalin shown in figure social specific syndrome theories of autism Theory of Mind ToMM underlying Uta Frith variability verbal visual