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| What was the aim of Baron-Cohen's study? |
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| The aim was to demostrate that the central deficit underlying autism is the autistic childs inability to employ a theory of mind. |
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| Three groups of participants were used for the experiment. What were the three groups and how many participants were in each group? |
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16 Autistics
40 Normal
10 Tourette Syndrome
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| What is the independant variable? |
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| The type of participants used. |
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| What is the dependant variable? |
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| The performance on the advanced test of theory of mind (eye task) |
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| What was the experiment of the Sally Ann test and the results? |
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| The child was presented two dolls, a marble, a box and a basket. Sally puts her marble in the basket and walks out the room. Ann then moves the marble to the box. Sally returns and the child is asked where will Sally look for the marble? The results showed that children at aged 4 who are normal would say the basket when children with autism will point at the box, which suggests children with autism cannot employ a T.O.M |
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| What was the Strange Stories Task? |
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| It was designed for the level of 8-9. It involved story comprehension, where the key question in the task involved a characters mental state or physical events. |
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| Where were the participants tested for these experiments? |
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| In their own home or in a lab at the University |
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| In the eyes test, how many images did they have and where did they get the images from? |
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| What was the method of the eyes task? |
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- Participants were shown the picture for 3 seconds
- They were then given a forced question between two mental states underneath the picture.
- The foil word was the oppisite.
- The experimenter asked what word best describes what the person is thinking or feeling.
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| Why did they do two other controlled experiments for group 1? |
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| To check whethere the results were effected by other factors. |
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| What was the gender recognition task? |
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| It involves looking at the same set of eyes as in the eyes task but deciding on their gender. |
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| Why did they do the gender recognition experiment? |
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| As it is social judgement not 'mind reading' |
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What was the mean results for the eye task?
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Autism - 16.3
Normal - 20.3
Tourette's - 20.4 |
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| Why can we question the ecological Validity? |
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Some of the participants were tested in a lab and some were tested in their own homes.
On the eyes task its not true to real life. |
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