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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... performance. Let us for the moment include them all under the heading of the child's state of mind and represent that this is a factor in determining child's state of mind full-time working mother low achievement child Figure 1.2 ...
... performance. Let us for the moment include them all under the heading of the child's state of mind and represent that this is a factor in determining child's state of mind full-time working mother low achievement child Figure 1.2 ...
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... performance on school tests – which has an immediate cause, as it were, in terms of the intellectual capability of the child (plus other internal factors, such as motivation). The state of the child, then, has rather to be inserted into ...
... performance on school tests – which has an immediate cause, as it were, in terms of the intellectual capability of the child (plus other internal factors, such as motivation). The state of the child, then, has rather to be inserted into ...
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... performance or present mothers increase performance, or both. Before we can find a remedy, we have to discover which way round it is. If we were to go with the lack of interest in school as a cause, then we could correct it by finding ...
... performance or present mothers increase performance, or both. Before we can find a remedy, we have to discover which way round it is. If we were to go with the lack of interest in school as a cause, then we could correct it by finding ...
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... performance are of no interest to this line of thinking. The thrust of the research is that certain effects obtain in general over the population as a whole. There will be both high and low performers wherever the mother is. For any ...
... performance are of no interest to this line of thinking. The thrust of the research is that certain effects obtain in general over the population as a whole. There will be both high and low performers wherever the mother is. For any ...
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... performance on such tasks requires both the development of a grapheme–phoneme (GP) correspondence system and a competence in relation to phonemes, which could be called implicit phoneme awareness (iPA). The GP system would also be a ...
... performance on such tasks requires both the development of a grapheme–phoneme (GP) correspondence system and a competence in relation to phonemes, which could be called implicit phoneme awareness (iPA). The GP system would also be a ...
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