1. Which one of the following groups of participants were not studied in the experiment?
    1.   Participants with high functioning autism
    2.   Participants with Asperger syndrome
    3.   'Normal' adults
    4.   Participants with Tourette syndrome
    5.   Participants with Down's syndrome
  2. Simon Baron-Cohen is the cousin of
    1.   Milgram
    2.   Borat
    3.   Ali G
    4.   Jamie Davies
    5.   Dannii Minogue
  3. Which one of the following is not a symptom of autism?
    1.   Difficulties with social interaction
    2.   Difficulties with verbal communication
    3.   Difficulties with non-verbal communication
    4.   Imaginative impairments
    5.   A restricted range of activities and interests
    6.   A lack of obsessive tendencies
  4. According to Simon Baron-Cohen what does having a theory of mind enable an individual to do?
    1.   Conserve
    2.   See what another individual can see
    3.   Appreciate that other people have different thoughts to themselves
    4.   Recognise the gender of a face
  5. The main dependent variable in the experiment was
    1.   The three groups of participants
    2.   The types of participants used
    3.   The performance on the advanced test of theory of mind (eyes task)
    4.   Autism
  6. The main independent variable in the experiment was
    1.   The three groups of participants – participants with high function autism or Asperger syndrome, ‘normal’ participants and participants with Tourette syndrome.
    2.   The two groups of participants – participants with high function autism or Asperger syndrome and ‘normal’ participants
    3.   Participants with Tourette syndrome and participant without Tourette syndrome
    4.   The performance on the advanced test of theory of mind (eyes task).
    5.   spelt wrong
  7. Autism is probably
    1.   A life long condition
    2.   Caused by poor parenting
    3.   Not long lasting
    4.   None of the above
  8. Which design did this study use?
    1.   A matched pairs design
    2.   An independent measures design
    3.   A repeated measures design
    4.   A correlational design
  9. Why is this experiment an example of a quasi or natural experiment?
    1.   The participants were in their natural environment
    2.   The experimenter could not randomly assign participants to either of the three groups
    3.   The participants were not matched
    4.   It was not a real study
    5.   It was a snapshot study
  10. What did the study find?
    1.   High functioning adults with autism or Asperger syndrome did have more difficulties with the Eye Task than both ‘normal’ adults and adults with Tourette syndrome.
    2.   ‘Normal’ adult females had more difficulties with the Eye Task than ‘normal’ adult males.
    3.   Adults with autism and Asperger syndrome had difficulties with the gender control task
    4.   Adults with autism and Asperger syndrome had difficulties with the basic emotion task
  11. Which one of the following statements about the gender control task is correct?
    1.   This task had a maximum score of 15
    2.   Participants with autism and Asperger syndrome had difficulties with the gender control task
    3.   The gender control task involved judging the basic emotions of six faces
    4.   This task involved looking at the same sets of eyes in the experimental task, but this time identifying the gender of the person in each photograph.
  12. Which one of the following statements about the basic emotion recognition task is correct?
    1.   15 faces were used including the following basic emotions: happy, sad, angry, afraid, disgusted, and surprised.
    2.   The Emotion Task involved judging photographs of whole faces displaying 6 basic emotions.
    3.   Participants with autism struggled on the emotion task
    4.   Participants with Asperger syndrome struggled on the emotion task
  13. What are the earlier studies findings in relation to second order theory of mind tasks?
    1.   Adults with autism cannot pass second order theory of mind tasks
    2.   Children with autism can pass second order theory of mind tasks
    3.   Adults with Tourette syndrome cannot pass second order theory of mind tasks
    4.   Adults with autism can pass second order theory of mind tasks
  14. Which of the following tasks test for an advanced theory of mind?
    1.   Gender recognition task
    2.   Basic emotion task
    3.   IQ tests
    4.   The eyes task
  15. Which of the following tasks test for an advanced theory of mind?
    1.   Strange stories task
    2.   Sally Anne test
    3.   Gender recognition task
    4.   Basic emotion task
  16. Which of the following is true of Asperger syndrome?
    1.   It was named after Hans Syndrome
    2.   People with Asperger syndrome have more language difficulties than people with autism
    3.   People with Asperger syndrome are usually at the lower functioning end of the autistic spectrum
    4.   People with Asperger syndrome are often of average or above average intelligence
  17. Which test was used to confirm the validity of the Eyes Task?
    1.   Sally Anne test
    2.   Strange stories task
    3.   IQ test
    4.   Gender recognition task
    5.   Basic emotion task
  18. Which one of the following results is correct?
    1.   'Normal' adult males scored higher on the Eye task than 'normal' adult females.
    2.   There was little difference in the performance of participants with autism or Asperger syndrome and participants with Tourette syndrome on the eyes task
    3.   'Normal' adults scored significantly better on the eyes task than participants with Tourette syndrome.
    4.   There was little difference between the performance of participants with Tourette syndrome and 'normal' adults on the eyes task.
  19. Why did the researchers also test adults with Tourette syndrome?
    1.   Tourette syndrome is nothing like autism or Asperger syndrome
    2.   The causes of autism and Asperger syndrome are thought to be very different to Tourette syndrome
    3.   Neither autism and Asperger syndrome or Tourette syndrome disrupt schooling or peer relations
    4.   Autism, Asperger syndrome and Tourette syndrome are believed to be associated with abnormalities in the frontal region of the brain
  20. Which of the following words is the foil to the target word 'friendly'
    1.   hostile
    2.   uncertain
    3.   repulsive
    4.   submissive
    5.   anxious
    6.   worried