Moral development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

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dc.contributorConners, Frances A.
dc.contributorHouser, Rick
dc.contributorBarber, Angela B.
dc.contributor.advisorScofield, Jason M.
dc.contributor.advisorThoma, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorCummings, Jamie Leigh
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-01T16:49:20Z
dc.date.available2017-03-01T16:49:20Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study examined how children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) judged social actions that involve moral and conventional violations. Past research shows that children with ASD, like their typical peers, judge social actions in the moral domain (e.g., causing harm to another person) to be different from social actions in the conventional domain (e.g., maintaining social order). This is somewhat surprising given their social and/or cognitive impairments, such as, deficits in theory of mind. To determine how robust this effect was the current study asked whether the domain distinction would remain intact when superficial cues were integrated into the context (e.g., crying). Perhaps ASD children with low ToM would be vulnerable to superficial emotional cues and use them to make moral and conventional distinctions; whereas high ToM and TD children were expected to ignore surface level use and focus on the domain of the act itself. Results found that all groups (i.e., TD, Low-ToM, and High-ToM) successfully maintained the domain distinction despite the emotional expressions exhibited by victims. Interestingly, the low-ToM tended to be the most severe in their ratings compared to either the high-ToM or the TD group.en_US
dc.format.extent91 p.
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0001320
dc.identifier.otherCummings_alatus_0004D_11661
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/1788
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
dc.relation.hasversionborn digital
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.subjectEducational psychology
dc.titleMoral development in children with Autism Spectrum Disordersen_US
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling
etdms.degree.disciplineEducational Psychology
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.leveldoctoral
etdms.degree.namePh.D.

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