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