Juniper Publishers- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

  JUNIPER PUBLISHERS - OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES Abstract The present work is a pilot study on Psychology of Testimony that belongs to a wider investigation, in which from two experimental conditions; the accuracy of the subjects' recall was evaluated through a free recall test and an interrogative test. The acceptance of false information introduced in different types of questions was analyzed as well for each condition. No differences were found between the two experimental conditions regarding the number of exact details, although differences were found for the length of the statements, the number of errors, the amount of sensory details and central details, being superior in the emotional content condition than in the neutral. The results on the suggestion of misleading information, on the other hand, indicate that a high percentage of the subjects accepted the information suggested in the questions, being higher in the ...

  JUNIPER PUBLISHERS - OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES People with Spectrum Autism Disorder (ASD) exhibit a restrictive and stereotyped behaviour [ 1 ]. One subtype of restricted and repetitive behaviour is restricted interests in actions, which describe the manner in which people perform activities in interaction with the context. People with ASD might engage with a narrow range of actions or an exclusive activity behavioural in order to developing their social interaction, so this deficit might lead to limited sources of stimulation to achieving social, communication and educational goals. In addition, interrupting an individual's engagement with restricted interests might evoke severe limitation general behaviour. Introduction Diverse findings [ 2 - 4 ] might be explained in terms of reduced perceptual global in autism, and that reduced perceptual global could also account for the...