The aim was to test the TOM of adults with autism or aspergers with the Eyes Test to show that impaired Tom was a specific disorder associated with autistic spectrum disorders.
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What is the background for Baron Cohen?
One explanation for autism is that it is caused by a core cognitive deficit, an impaired theory of mind. It is suggested that HFA adults can pass theory of mind tests.
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Who was group 1 in Baron Cohen and describe how they were recruited
Group 1 was Experimental with 16 people, 13 males and 4 females, with HFA or Aspergers Syndrome. It was volunteer as he participants were recruited using an advert in the National Autistic Society magazine as well as through clinics.
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Who was in group 2 in Baron Cohen and describe how they were recruited
Group 2 was Control with 50 people, 25 female and 25 male, with age matched controls and no history of psychiatric disorder and normal intelligence. It was random sampling from a Cambridge Uni database.
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Who was in group 3 in Baron Cohen and describe how they were recruited
Group 3 was 10 people with tourettes syndrome, all of normal intelligence who were volunteers from a referral centre in London.
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What was the Research Method and Experimental design used?
Quasi Experiment and a Matched pairs design on Age and IQ
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What was the eyes task?
All P's were shown 25 photographs of 10x15 for 3 seconds and asked to answer a forced choice question about the mental state of the eyes, with either a target or a foil e.g concerned and unconcerned.
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What was the strange stories task?
Participants in groups 1 and 3 were tested on Happes Strange Stories task to test the validity of the eyes task.
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What was the Gender Recognition of Eyes Task about?
P's had to identify the sex of the eyes from the eyes test to test face recognition.
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What was the Basic Emotion Recognition Task about?
P's were shown the six basic emotions on a full face (happy, sad, excited, angry, surprise, disgust) to see whether scores were due to basic difficulties with emotional recognition.
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Give a result of Baron Cohen comparing Tourettes and Autism
Results indiciated that Autistics were significantly impaired, while Tourettes made very little mistakes.
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Give a result comparing Normal, Autism and Tourettes Range.
Autism had a larger range at 10 than Normal and Tourettes at 9.
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Give a result comparing the scores of the Eyes task for Normal, Autism and Tourettes.
Autism scored 16.3, significantly less in comparison to 20.3 of Normal and 20.4 of Tourettes.
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Give two conclusions of Baron-Cohen
1. Lack of TOM is specific to Autism. 2. Impairments were not due to interpreting context.
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What is the background for Baron Cohen?
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One explanation for autism is that it is caused by a core cognitive deficit, an impaired theory of mind. It is suggested that HFA adults can pass theory of mind tests.
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