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this test was too see if the children under the age of 6 could identify the place in which the marble has been placed
first sally puts the marble in her basket and goes out to play then naughty anne moves the marble into the box , where will sally look for her marble |
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this was to find out if adults with autism or aspergers lack a theory of mind.
this test was wether they could identify the mind set of the picture which just shows the eyes of a person they were given two words to choose from the correct answer and the foil
his secondry aim was to see if females were better at seeing peoples mind set than males, he claims that males minds are more machanical and that femals are more emotional mind set
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| autistic and tourettes groups were also used just as normal this was another test to test theory of mind to see wether that the test correlated with the eyes task |
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| gender eye recognition task |
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| this was a test to see wether that autistic people could identify wether the set of eyes belonged to a femal or male, this woud have been a hard test because autistics dont like eye contact. this was just to test wether poor performance of the eye task was due to to general social perception rather than theory of mind skills |
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| Basic emotions recognition task |
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| this showed the whole face of the person and were asked to say wether the face was either anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness and surprised this was to test wether a poor performance on the eye task could be linked with poor basic emotion skills and not theory of mind |
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| theory of mind is wether you can predict someones mind set or behaviour |
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