Psychological Development and Education ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (3): 338-343.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2019.03.11

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Discrimination Reversal Learning Between Autism And Their Typically Developing Children Aged 5~6 Years Old

JIN Yan1, HE Ziqiao1, YE Tong2   

  1. 1. Department of Education Science, Huizhou College, Huizhou, Guangdong 516007;
    2. Department of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, NG72RD
  • Published:2019-06-19

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Abstract: To examine the reversal flexibility in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), compared with typically developing (TD) children. Forty-four children aged from 5~6 years old (ASD, n=24 and TD, n=20) participated a simple discrimination reversal learning. The results showed that, at the acquisition stage, both ASD and TD groups demonstrated greater sound expectances to a conditioned stimulus (CS) that predicted an aversive sound than for another CS that never followed by the aversive sound. At the reversal learning stage, during the late stage of reversal, the TD group responded more strongly to the new CS that followed by the aversive sound. However, the ASD group had no significant change in the sound expectances of the new CS, indiscriminating the two new conditioned stimuli. The current study demonstrated the reversal flexibility deficit in 5-6-year-old children with ASD.

Key words: autism spectrum disorder, discrimination learning, reversal learning

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