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| Theory of mind or (TOM) is when you can understand how your mind and others work, guessing and predicting the minds of others. |
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| What were the aims of the 'Advanced theory of mind' test? |
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- To find out if adults with autism or asperger's lack advanced theory of mind, this is to be able to predict the thoughts or behaviour of another person.
- To investigate whether females would do better then males on the advanced theory of mind test. |
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| What was the Method used by Baron-Cohen? |
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| The Method was the Quasi Experiment -This is where the independent variable is not manipulated and forms naturally. E.g Autism, Tourettes syndrome and Normal. |
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| What was the Independent Variable? |
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| The three different groups of participants (autistic, tourette and normal). |
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| What was the Dependent Variable? |
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| The performance on an Advanced Theory of Mind Test (eyes task). |
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| What age was the Sally Anne Test used for? |
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| Baron-Cohen used the Sally Anne Test on children upto 6 years of age to see if they lacked theory of mind. |
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| Why was control tasks used? |
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| Control tasks were used to check if poor performance on the eyes task in group one was due to other factors, so two control tasks took place. |
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| Why couldn't the Sally Anne Test be used to test adults on the theory of mind? |
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| The Sally Anne test could not be used on adults as it was to simplistic. Therefore, Baron-Cohen developed a new theory of mind test called 'Advanced Theory of Mind'. |
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| Why was Happe's strange stories used? |
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| Austistic and tourettes groups were also tested on Happe's Strange stories task in order to test the validity of the eyes task as a test of theory of mind. If the performance on the eyes task and strange stories situations task correlated then this would indicate it tested theory of mind. |
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| Researchers claimed the eye task was valid as they did a test originally with 8 judges. |
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