Baron-Cohen Et Al Study Flashcards
Describe Group 1s participants
16 individuals with high-functionimg autism or Asperger Syndrome.
Ratio: HFA=4, AS=12.
Normal intelligence.
Sex ratio: M=13, F=3.
Recruited from a national autistic society magazine.
Mean age of 28.6.
Range 18 - 49.
Describe Group 2 participants
50 'normal'/undiagnosed individuals. Normal intelligence. Sex ratio: M=25, F=25 From general population of Cambridge. Mean age of 30. Range 18-48.
Describe Group 3 participants
10 individuals with You're tye Syndrome. Normal intelligence. Sex ratio: M=8, F=2. Recruited from a tertiary referral centre in London. Mean age of 27.7 Range 18 -47.
Baron-Cohen’s main hypothesis in reference to Autism.
That Autistic people or people with Asperger Syndrome would score significantly less than ‘normal’/undiagnosed people.
Baron-Cohen’s main hypothesis in reference to females and males.
That the ‘normal’/undiagnosed females would score significantly better than the ‘normal’/undiagnosed males.
Group 1s mean score of the eyes task.
16.3
Group 2s mean score for the eyes task.
20.3
Group 3s mean score for the eyes task.
20.4
Group 1s range for the eyes task.
13-23
Group 2s range for the eyes task.
16-25
Group 3s range for the eyes task.
16-25
‘Normal’/undiagnosed males mean for the eyes task.
18.8
‘Normal’/undiagnosed females mean for the eyes task.
21.8
‘Normal’/undiagnosed males range for the eyes task.
16-22
‘Normal’/undiagnosed females range for the eyes task.
20-25
Baron-Cohen’s conclusions in reference to Autism
Adults that have either high functioning autism or Asperger Syndrome have subtle deficits with mind reading.
What is TOM.
Theory of Mind
Describe the Gender Recognition Task
This task involved using the same sets of eyes from the eyes task but the participants had to identify the genders instead.
Describe the Basic Emotion Recognition Task
In this task the participants were shown 6 photographs of whole faces. The six basic emotions were happy, sad, angry, afraid, disgust and surprised.
Describe the Eyes Task
Participants were shown 25 black and white photographs of the eye region of random people’s faces. Underneath there were two mental state words for the participants to choose from, they were always semantic opposites.
Describe the Strange Stories Task
This involves participants being presented with two examples of each 12 story types such as lie, white lie, joke, figure of speech and irony.
What kind of data were the results in?
Quantitative.
Name the three areas autistic people struggle with.
Social Interaction
Social Imagination
Social Communication
Which section on the Autism spectrum did the eyes task look at?
Social Communication
Which section on the Autism spectrum did the strange stories look at?
Social Imagination
An example of behaviour that having a lack of social Communication causes
Unable to read emotions or identify jokes or sarcasm.
An example of behaviour that having a lack of social interaction causes
Inappropriate behaviour such as standing too close to someone or constantly interrupting conversations.
An example of behaviour that having a lack of social Imagination causes
Unable to predict danger or understand that actions have consequences.
Baron-Cohen’s conclusions regarding the ‘normal’/undiagnosed population.
He thought that adult females will score better than the males.
Baron-Cohen’s aim regarding theory of mind.
He knew that children with autism lacked a theory of mind. He suggested that adults with autism would succeed even the second-order tests. He wanted to prove that adults still lack a proper theory of mind.
