Baron-Cohen
- Created by: laurenhartley99
- Created on: 13-03-17 17:30
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- Baron-Cohen
- Groups
- Autism/ Asperger syndrome
- 16 adults
- 13 male
- 3 female
- normal intelligence
- 'high functioning autism'
- Volunteer sample
- recruited through doctors/ad in a newspaper article 'national autistic society's magazine'
- Similarities -childhood problem -causes problems with relationships -frontal lobe of brain
- Tourette's syndrome
- 10 adults
- 8 male
- 2 female
- Second control group
- 10 adults
- Tourette's syndrome
- 16 adults
- Control group
- 50 adults
- all of normal intelligence
- 25 female
- 25 male
- 50 adults
- Tourette's syndrome
- 10 adults
- 8 male
- 2 female
- Second control group
- 10 adults
- Autism/ Asperger syndrome
- Design/ procedure
- Eyes task
- 25 b&w photographs
- 3 seconds
- had to choose between 2 mental states
- Example: 'sad' or 'afraid'
- Measures 'theory of mind' ability
- Happe's strange story task
- Predicted that those who struggled on eyes task should also struggle on this task too.
- Prove the eyes task is valid
- Control tasks
- Used to eliminate the possibility that the autism group had a visual problem
- Gender recognition task
- recognise the gender of the eyes
- basic emotion recognition task
- shown images of whole faces (similar to eyes task)
- Eyes task
- Results
- Eyes task -Autism 16.3 -none 20.3 -Tourette's 20.4
- Autism group struggled with Happe's strange story task -tourette's group didn't
- Groups
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