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6. Why is there interest in Williams syndrome as a model for developmental disorders?

  • Because of its well defined genetic pathology
  • Because it has specific behavioural deficits and global cognitive deficits
  • Because it disassociates with other disorders
  • Because it has specific cognitive and behavioural deficits

7. Do WS children significantly differ from typically developing 4-5 year olds when matched for mental age in motion/form processing?

  • No
  • Yes

8. Does WS show expressive or telegraphic language?

  • Expressive as opposed to telegraphic in Down syndrome
  • Telegraphic as opposed to expressive in Down syndrome

9. What would you expect to see in social interactions from a WS sufferer?

  • Socially engaging, poor TOM, cant distinguish lies from irony and negative socially inappropriate behaviour
  • Socially engaging, poor TOM, cant distinguish lies from irony and positive socially inappropriate behaviour
  • Socially engaging, good TOM, can distinguish lies from irony and positive socially inappropriate behaviour
  • Socially unengaging, poor TOM, cant distinguish lies from irony and negative socially inappropriate behaviour

10. How does neuroconstructivism explain the spatial cognitive deficits in WS?

  • WS individuals impaired in spatial cognition as dorsal stream develops unusually bc WS individual does not detect visuo-spatial properties
  • Genes missing in WS also involved in anatomical development of dorsal stream pathways

11. Which cognitive phenotypes are represented in the DD between WS and autism?

  • Space
  • Social cognition
  • Language
  • Problem solving

12. How does cognitive genetics explain the spatial cognitive deficits in WS?

  • Genes missing in WS also involved in anatomical development of dorsal stream pathways
  • WS individuals impaired in spatial cognition as dorsal stream develops unusually bc WS individual does not detect visuo-spatial properties

13. What does neuroconstructivism emphasise?

  • The role of gene expression THROUGH developement. Early cognitive profile inferred from adult end state. Fractionation of strengths and weaknesses across domains,disregard of environment
  • The role of genes in coding cognitive abilities. Are specific cognitive modules selectively affected?

14. What does the local-processing bias hypothesis suggest about the nature of WS visual-spatial disorder?

  • WS have issues with the global form of objects but do not struggle with fine detail
  • WS have issues with the local features of objects but do not struggle with global arrangement

15. Which cognitive phenotypes are represented in the DD between WS and Down syndrome

  • Space
  • Problem solving
  • Social cognition
  • Language

16. Which of these is not a cognitive phenotype in WS?

  • Intact spatial and numerical skills
  • Impaired spatial and numerical skills
  • Intact language, face recog and social interaction
  • IQ range from 40-90

17. What does cognitive genetics emphasise?

  • The role of genes in coding cognitive abilities. Are specific cognitive modules selectively affected?
  • The role of gene expression THROUGH developement. Early cognitive profile inferred from adult end state. Fractionation of strengths and weaknesses across domains,disregard of environment

18. What do WS show unusual performance in as measured by word fluency task?

  • Vocabulary
  • Enrichment of linguistic affect
  • Syntax
  • Grammar

19. How doesneuroconstructivism explain WS?

  • The adult state of the language system may be mature but not 'intact'. Language is atypical in many ways, WS informs about the low level processes of language
  • The genes coding for language skills are intact, other developmental disorders are impaired on these genes.

20. Which of these is NOT present in the socio-cognitive deficit profile of WS?

  • Excessive eye contact with novel adult > parent
  • Lack of social inhibition
  • Telegraphic and evaluative language excessively used
  • Expressive and evaluative language excessively used
  • WS perform at extremely high level (higher than controls) on face recognition