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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
91

More than flattery: exploring imitative ability in children with autism spectrum disorder

Takagi, Anna January 2012 (has links)
Previous research indicates that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulty imitating the behaviour of others. Within the area of object-directed imitation, the presence or absence of a clear goal or outcome may facilitate or hinder imitative ability. The current study investigated imitation in five children ages 5 to 10 years with ASD. Imitation tasks were adapted from Rogers et al. (2010). Imitation actions were incidental to the goal and classified as functional or nonfunctional: functional actions and objects had a tangible outcome with sensory feedback while nonfunctional actions had no tangible outcome. Information about participants' developmental level, motor ability, language skills, adaptive behaviour, and social functioning were also collected through parent questionnaires. Contrary to previous findings, children in this sample did not imitate functional actions more successfully than non-functional actions. Scatterplots of variables suggested positive relationships between imitation and social functioning, motor skills, developmental level, and language skills. With the exception of one participant, individual case analyses revealed that participants were able to at least partially imitate the majority of the tasks despite generally low developmental and social functioning. Observations are discussed within the context of the existing literature and implications for school and clinical interventions for ASD are also addressed. / Des recherches antérieures indiquent que les enfants atteints du syndrome d'autisme ont des difficultés à imiter le comportement d'autres personnes. Dans le secteur d'imitation avec un objet-dirigé, la présence ou l'absence d'un objectif peut faciliter ou peut freiner la capacité imitatrice. L'étude actuelle a examiné l'imitation au près de cinq enfants atteint d'autisme âgés de 5 à 10 ans. Les tâches d'imitation ont été adaptées de Rogers et d'al. (2010). Les actions d'imitation étaient originales et classifiées comme fonctionnel ou non fonctionnel : les actions et les objets fonctionnels ont eu une issue tangible avec des réactions sensorielles pendant que les actions non fonctionnelles n'ont pas eu d'issues tangibles. Les informations provenant des participants au niveau de leur développement mental, capacité motrice, compétences langagière, comportement adaptif, et leur fonctionnement social a aussi été recueilli par les questionnaires complétés par les parents. Contrairement aux conclusions précédentes, les enfants dans cet échantillon n'ont pas imité des actions fonctionnelles avec plus de succès que les actions non fonctionnelles. L'analyse visuelle des tendances a suggéré des relations positives entre l'imitation et les variables du fonctionnement social, les compétences motrices, les niveaux de développements, et les compétences de langue. Les analyses de cas individuel ont révélé que les participants pouvaient au moins partiellement imiter la majorité des tâches malgré leur bas niveau de fonctionnement développemental et social. Les observations sont discutées dans le contexte de la littérature et dans les implications actuelles pour l'école; les interventions cliniques pour ASD sont aussi adressées.
92

The relationship between age and willingness to help from adolescence into adulthood and a comparison of willingness to help in same age and cross-age exchanges /

Binnings, Thorne R. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1989. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-12, Section: B, page: 5900. Chairperson: Thomas J. Coates.
93

The effects of parental marital relations on young adults' interpersonal functioning : a longitudinal investigation /

Seitel, Laura Ellen. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1992. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-07, Section: B, page: 3811. Chair: Shirley Feldman.
94

Life course patterns of intimacy : a comparison between men and women /

Hen, Meirav. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1994. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-04, Section: B, page: 1689. Chair: Nancy G. Bliwise.
95

The development of structure in the world of expression : a cognitive-developmental analysis of children's "Sand Worlds" /

Jones, Linn Eleanor. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1982. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-09, Section: B, page: 3052.
96

Adulthood and its discontents : self-discrepant life course scripts /

Aldava, John Fraire, IV. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1996. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-08, Section: B, page: 5354. Chair: Anita L. Greene.
97

Parental and temperamental influences on the early development of attention and language /

Crawford, Jennifer Sue. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 2004. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: B, page: 4651. Adviser: Masha A. Gartstein.
98

"The teddy bear girls" - Tertiary transitional objects : a retrospective study of stuffed animal attachment in late adolescence /

Humphrey, Virginia Potter. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1986. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-07, Section: B, page: 3135.
99

A comparison of differences in gender identity and sex-role adoption between males and females younger than 25 and older than 60 /

Mandel, Hillary. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1986. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-09, Section: B, page: 3983.
100

A study of interactional patterns of depressed mothers and their three-year-old children /

Thomson, Gabriele. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1986. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-11, Section: B, page: 4678.

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