Baron Cohen Et Al

Question 1

What three groups of people were used?

Answer 1

Tourettes, Autism, Normal

Question 2

How many people were in each group?

Answer 2

Autism-16 Normal-50 Tourettes 10

Question 3

How many males and females in the tourettes group?

Answer 3

8M:2F

Question 4

How many males and females in the normal group?

Answer 4

25M:25F

Question 5

How many males and females in the Autism group?

Answer 5

13M:3F

Question 6

What is TOM

Answer 6

Theory Of Mind

Question 7

What was the experiment type? IE: Lab/Quasi/Natural

Answer 7

Quasi-Natural

Question 8

What was the IV?

Answer 8

The Syndrome (Where applicable)

Question 9

What was the DV?

Answer 9

The result of the Eyes Task

Question 10

What area does this experiment come under?

Answer 10

Individual differences

Question 11

What was the average score for Autism?

Answer 11

16.3

Question 12

What was the average score for Tourettes?

Answer 12

20.4

Question 13

What was the average score for Normal?

Answer 13

20.3

Question 14

What was the type of data collected?

Answer 14

Quantitive

Question 15

What was the experiment design?

Answer 15

Independant measures

Question 16

How could the experiment be ecologically invalid?

Answer 16

Some experiments were done in an unfamiliar lab environment at university

Question 17

How could the experiment be ecologically valid?

Answer 17

They were done under controlled environements

Question 18

Does the experiment have good internal validity?

Answer 18

Yes as conditions and variable were kept constant and did not have too much affect on the results.

Question 19

How did being standardised help the experiment?

Answer 19

It helped by allowing each participant to be tested in a identical way so that internal validity could be maximized as each test was identical

Question 20

How long were the pictures shown for, and how many choices were there for the displayed emotion?

Answer 20

Each picture was 3 seconds, and there was 2 word choices.