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Hayden's teachers have been working on receptive vocabulary (discrimination) using a field of two photographs ("show me bird; show me flower"). He seemed to be doing well, getting 100% on all trials for several sessions. However, when they introduced a new flower photo, he began to point to it when asked to show "bird". In the initial training sessions the flower in the photo was yellow and the bird was red. The new flower was also red. It appeared to Hayden's teacher that he was fixating on the color rather than the actual item. This is an example of which cognitive functioning problem common to some children with autism?

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