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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... example of the limits of language 15 An invitation to consider diagrams as a tool 18 A tool for representing causal relationships 18 Chapter 2 Introducing Cognition One thingI do want you to believe Reductionism Can we rely on behaviour ...
... example of the limits of language 15 An invitation to consider diagrams as a tool 18 A tool for representing causal relationships 18 Chapter 2 Introducing Cognition One thingI do want you to believe Reductionism Can we rely on behaviour ...
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... example, the intra-uterine environment provided by a drug-taking mother. As result of one of these misfortunes, the child develops outside the normal range – the problem may be a general one or may be specific, but in either case some ...
... example, the intra-uterine environment provided by a drug-taking mother. As result of one of these misfortunes, the child develops outside the normal range – the problem may be a general one or may be specific, but in either case some ...
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... example. Sometimes the labels refer to a specifiable genetic problem – William's syndrome is an example here. In other cases the labels have deeper significance, with the defining features being more complex – autism is a good example ...
... example. Sometimes the labels refer to a specifiable genetic problem – William's syndrome is an example here. In other cases the labels have deeper significance, with the defining features being more complex – autism is a good example ...
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... example, and, although I have tried to be dispassionate I may seem to favour those beliefs here. However, these beliefs are not fixed, and it is important for the reader to realize that what I want to communicate in this book is a way ...
... example, and, although I have tried to be dispassionate I may seem to favour those beliefs here. However, these beliefs are not fixed, and it is important for the reader to realize that what I want to communicate in this book is a way ...
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... example is the logic that says that the way to stop an individual from committing another crime is to lock him up (this, of course, is a politician's logic, not a scientist's). Could it be, here, that it is the individual's liberty that ...
... example is the logic that says that the way to stop an individual from committing another crime is to lock him up (this, of course, is a politician's logic, not a scientist's). Could it be, here, that it is the individual's liberty that ...
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