Baron-Cohen Et Al Study

Question 1

Describe Group 1s participants

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Describe Group 2 participants

Answer 2

50 'normal'/undiagnosed individuals.
Normal intelligence.
Sex ratio: M=25, F=25
From general population of Cambridge.
Mean age of 30.
Range 18-48.

Question 3

Describe Group 3 participants

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Baron-Cohen’s main hypothesis in reference to Autism.

Answer 4

That Autistic people or people with Asperger Syndrome would score significantly less than ‘normal’/undiagnosed people.

Question 5

Baron-Cohen’s main hypothesis in reference to females and males.

Answer 5

That the ‘normal’/undiagnosed females would score significantly better than the ‘normal’/undiagnosed males.

Question 6

Group 1s mean score of the eyes task.

Answer 6

16.3

Question 7

Group 2s mean score for the eyes task.

Answer 7

20.3

Question 8

Group 3s mean score for the eyes task.

Answer 8

20.4

Question 9

Group 1s range for the eyes task.

Answer 9

13-23

Question 10

Group 2s range for the eyes task.

Answer 10

16-25

Question 11

Group 3s range for the eyes task.

Answer 11

16-25

Question 12

‘Normal’/undiagnosed males mean for the eyes task.

Answer 12

18.8

Question 13

‘Normal’/undiagnosed females mean for the eyes task.

Answer 13

21.8

Question 14

‘Normal’/undiagnosed males range for the eyes task.

Answer 14

16-22

Question 15

‘Normal’/undiagnosed females range for the eyes task.

Answer 15

20-25

Question 16

Baron-Cohen’s conclusions in reference to Autism

Answer 16

Adults that have either high functioning autism or Asperger Syndrome have subtle deficits with mind reading.

Question 17

What is TOM.

Answer 17

Theory of Mind

Question 18

Describe the Gender Recognition Task

Answer 18

This task involved using the same sets of eyes from the eyes task but the participants had to identify the genders instead.

Question 19

Describe the Basic Emotion Recognition Task

Answer 19

In this task the participants were shown 6 photographs of whole faces. The six basic emotions were happy, sad, angry, afraid, disgust and surprised.

Question 20

Describe the Eyes Task

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

Describe the Strange Stories Task

Answer 21

This involves participants being presented with two examples of each 12 story types such as lie, white lie, joke, figure of speech and irony.

Question 22

What kind of data were the results in?

Answer 22

Quantitative.

Question 23

Name the three areas autistic people struggle with.

Answer 23

Social Interaction
Social Imagination
Social Communication

Question 24

Which section on the Autism spectrum did the eyes task look at?

Answer 24

Social Communication

Question 25

Which section on the Autism spectrum did the strange stories look at?

Answer 25

Social Imagination

Question 26

An example of behaviour that having a lack of social Communication causes

Answer 26

Unable to read emotions or identify jokes or sarcasm.

Question 27

An example of behaviour that having a lack of social interaction causes

Answer 27

Inappropriate behaviour such as standing too close to someone or constantly interrupting conversations.

Question 28

An example of behaviour that having a lack of social Imagination causes

Answer 28

Unable to predict danger or understand that actions have consequences.

Question 29

Baron-Cohen’s conclusions regarding the ‘normal’/undiagnosed population.

Answer 29

He thought that adult females will score better than the males.

Question 30

Baron-Cohen’s aim regarding theory of mind.

Answer 30

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.