Baron-Cohen

Question 0

Aims 1?

Answer 0

To assess whether adults with autism are able to gauge emotions from only images of eyes

Question 1

Prompted by?

Answer 1

Wanted to test ‘theory of mind and Sally-Ann test

Question 2

Aims 2?

Answer 2

To assess gender difference in normal adults (Eyes task)

Question 3

Groups 1?

Answer 3

Autistic participants; magazine advert and referrals from specialist

Question 4

How many males on group 1?

Answer 4

13

Question 5

How many females in group 1?

Answer 5

3

Question 6

How many had aspergers?

Answer 6

12

Question 7

How many were high functioning autistics?

Answer 7

4

Question 8

Group 2?

Answer 8

Tourette’s participants

Question 9

How many males had Tourette’s?

Answer 9

8

Question 10

How many females had Tourette’s?

Answer 10

2

Question 11

Group 3?

Answer 11

50 normal participants

Question 12

Where was the study?

Answer 12

Cambridge, England

Question 13

How many normal participants were female?

Answer 13

25

Question 14

How many were female participants?

Answer 14

25

Question 15

What’s was the test for autism?

Answer 15

Eye task

Question 16

How many eyes were in the eye task?

Answer 16

25

Question 17

Two different choices?

Answer 17

Target and fail

Question 18

What was the task with sarcasm?

Answer 18

Happé Stories

Question 19

What were the Happé stories?

Answer 19

Scenarios which asses insight, sarcasm and metaphors

Question 20

What was the control test?

Answer 20

Gender recognition- partial black and white eyes to asses genders

Question 21

What was the basic control task?

Answer 21

Basic emotion - full face colour images

Question 22

Results about Tourette’s and normal groups?

Answer 22

Tourette’s and normal groups scored similar in every test. Every task - 20.3/25 on average

Question 23

Average autistic group scored?

Answer 23

16.3/25

Question 24

What did all groups score high on?

Answer 24

All groups scored highly on basic emotions

Question 25

What else did all groups score high on?

Answer 25

All groups scored highly on gender recognition

Question 26

Which sex scored higher on normal groups and what was the average?

Answer 26

females (21.8)

Question 27

Male groups of average?

Answer 27

In normal group than males (18.8)

Question 28

Conclusion?

Answer 28

Adults with autism do not read emotions aswell as others

Question 29

Reliability?

Answer 29

Repeat and retest experiment and is easy because of tight structure

Question 30

Validity?

Answer 30

Sound as eyes do show emotion. May see it as artificial as taken out of usual routine

Question 31

Study provides?

Answer 31

Study provides framework from which to assess the ‘theory of the mind’