Brief Report: Impaired Flexible Item Selection Task (FIST) in School-Age Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Autor/inn/en	Yerys, Benjamin E.; Wolff, Brian C.; Moody, Eric; Pennington, Bruce F.; Hepburn, Susan L.
Titel	Brief Report: Impaired Flexible Item Selection Task (FIST) in School-Age Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42 (2012) 9, S.2013-2020 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-012-1443-x
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Control Groups; Mental Age; Autism; Item Analysis; Correlation; Task Analysis; Cognitive Ability; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Verbal Ability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Geistige Beweglichkeit; Autismus; Itemanalyse; Korrelation; Aufgabenanalyse; Denkfähigkeit; Mündliche Leistung
Abstract	Cognitive flexibility has been measured with inductive reasoning or explicit rule tasks in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The "Flexible Item Selection Task" (FIST) differs from previous cognitive flexibility tasks in ASD research by giving children an abstract, ambiguous rule to switch. The ASD group (N = 22; Mean age = 8.28 years, SD = 1.52) achieved a lower shift percentage than the typically developing verbal mental-age control group (N = 22; Mean age = 6.26 years, SD = 0.82). There was a significant positive correlation between verbal mental age and shift percentage for children with ASD. Group differences on the FIST converge and extend prior evidence documenting an impaired ability to adapt rapidly to changes in task demands for individuals with ASD. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10