autism spectrum disorder - 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial

Question

Answer the following about Michelle Dawson’s essay “The Misbehaviour of Behaviourists” and its ethical critique of Applied Behavior Analysis, for 10 points each.

[10e] The essay criticizes using ABA to treat children with this condition, which Dawson herself has. The DSM-5 reclassified this condition on a “spectrum” with Asperger’s syndrome.

ANSWER: autism spectrum disorder [or ASD; or word forms]

[10h] Dawson harshly criticizes ABA for using physical punishments as these stimuli. In operant conditioning, this term refers to unpleasant stimuli added in positive punishment or removed in negative reinforcement.

ANSWER: aversives [or aversive stimuli; reject “aversion”]

[10m] The UCLA psychologist O. Ivar Løvaas, the major target of Dawson’s essay, attempted to curb this behavior among autistic children in his method of discrete trial training. This behavior involves the repetition of physical movements and sounds.

ANSWER: stimming [accept self-stimulation or self-stimulatory behavior]

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT	01/27/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Warwick	Bristol	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Imperial A	10	0	10	20
Kiel	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Oxford B	Edinburgh	10	0	10	20
Oxford A	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
Durham A	Oxford C	10	0	10	20