Baron-Cohen
- Created by: Eleanordaniels
- Created on: 24-04-15 09:37
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- Baron-Cohen
- Aim
- To investigate whether adults with autism/AS would be impaired on a TOM test
- Method
- Quasi-experiment
- IV-Disorder DV-Result on TOM test
- Matched participants (Age and IQ)
- Repeated measures
- Procedure
- Eyes task-25 photos of male & female eye regions in black and white
- Shown for 3s and given a forced choice question (2 possible answers) Basic e.g. sad Complex e.g. arrogant
- Basic emotion task
- Used to check if difficulties were to do with basic emotion recognition
- Photos of whole faces with 6 basic emotions (happy, sad, angry, afraid, disgust, surprise)
- Eyes task-25 photos of male & female eye regions in black and white
- Results
- Eyes Task Autistic- 16.3 Normal- 20.3 Tourette- 20.4
- Gender RecognitionAutistic- 24.1Normal- 23.3Tourette 23.7
- Strange Stories Tourette- No mistakes Autistic- significant mistakes
- Participants
- 16 autism/AS 50 normal 10 Tourette
- 13 males 3 females autistic/AS
- 8 males 2 females Tourettes
- 25 male 25 female Normal
- 8 males 2 females Tourettes
- Evaluation
- Method- can claim cause and effect as was highly controlled
- Was a quasi-expt. so researcher didnt have to manipulate the IV
- The Strange Stories task validated the Eyes Test
- Artificial environment lacks ecological validity. Participants sensitive to environment
- Eyes task low in ecol. validity as only showed stationary eyes not moving, usually see whole moving face
- Ethical issue of protection from harm as could've been stressful for participants
- Was a quasi-expt. so researcher didnt have to manipulate the IV
- Data- was quantitative meaning could be analysed to show TOM however no qualitative data which could've explained results
- Sample- was small with 4 autistic, 12 AS and 10 tourette so difficult to generalise.
- Practical application of developing TOM. However only useful if Eyes Test is proven valid
- Method- can claim cause and effect as was highly controlled
- Aim
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