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Recent content by scifinerd

  1. scifinerd

    Question about Autism Speaks

    Firstly I think this description from their website is kind of amusing “Autism, or autism spectrum disorder, refers to a range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication, as well as by unique strengths and differences...
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    My college psychology textbook says...

    You bring up a good thought. I’m going to look into that. I called cengage today since they’re the distributors of my textbook. The woman I spoke to on the phone agreed with me and is going to work on bringing this issue to the attention of the authors of this book.
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    My college psychology textbook says...

    I very much agree. I’m planning to take it to the Dean today.
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    My college psychology textbook says...

    Yeah that picture actually amuses me. Nobody makes eye contact with each other 24/7. They aren’t wrong about the eye contact aspect but that picture really doesn’t mean anything. Anyone can look away from someone in a photograph.
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    My college psychology textbook says...

    Haha I thought the exact same thing about it loooking like information from autism speaks.
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    My college psychology textbook says...

    They also put this in the section of my book labeled psychological disorders. Which I could live with it weren't for the fact that there's no mention of the fact that ASD's aren't psychological disorders. That and they listed this right under schizophrenia.
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    My college psychology textbook says...

    The publication date on my textbook is 2017.
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    My college psychology textbook says...

    ...a lot of stuff that I find to be rather questionable. Hello everyone, I'm currently taking a psychology class at my university and I'm not not really happy with the information presented in my textbook. So I decided to highlight some of the stuff I find to be either inaccurate, misleading...
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