Core Studies


Simon Baron-Cohen

 

 

There are some telly clips worth watching here at www.psychclips.co.uk

 

 

Simon Baron-Cohen is a director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. Here is Simon's home page at ARC.

 

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The Baron-Cohen Page

Baron-Cohen, S., Jollife, T., Mortimore, C. & Robertson, M. (1997) Another advanced test of theory of mind: evidence from very high functioning adults with autism or Asperger syndrome. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 38: 813-822

On this page you should find lots of useful stuff to help you in your learning of the Baron-Cohen experiment.

Here is the most important page. Click here for a summary and evaluation of the Baron-Cohen experiment.

This page has lots of Core Studies Section A past questions that you might want to practice. Please don’t email me for the answers.

Do try the quizzes. Here is a multichoice quiz, here is a true or false quiz, here is a match the results quiz, here is an easy match the sampling quiz here is a match the people quiz and here is a fill in the gap quiz to test your knowledge of the study.

This link will send you to a readable full version of the original text of the study although there are some images and tables missiing.

There are a number of great videos on psychclips to peruse but why not start by having a look at this one where Simon Baron-Cohen is shown diagnosing Daniel Tammet as a very high functioning person with autism?

And here is a great page on Jamie’s www.psychblog.co.uk where you can read lots of really useful articles related to this study.