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C2: Individual Differences Flashcards

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Freud: aim

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To document the case of and treat Little Hans who was suffering from anxiety, a lively interest in his widdler and who had developed a phobia of white horses

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Freud: sample

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Little Hans was studied from the age of 3-5, Hans father Max Graf and Little Hans mother were also patients of Freud

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Freud: research method

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Longitudinal case study

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Freud: procedure

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  • Lively interest in his wider and the presence and absence of this in other people lead to threats from his mother
  • Gained a sister he resented
  • Later gained a fear of horses as this reminded him of his father
  • Fear generalised to carts and buses
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Freud: conclusions

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Supported his theory of: - Psychosexual/infant sexuality

  • His suggestion that boys in the phallic stage of psychosexual development experience the Oedipud complex
  • Nature of phobias are the product of unconscious anxiety displaced onto harmless external objects
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Baron Cohen: aim

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To investigate if high functioning adults with autism or asperger syndrome would be impaired on a theory of mind test called the ‘Eyes Task’

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Baron Cohen: 3 hypotheses

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1) Autism and aspergers syndrome participants will show significant impairment on the theory of mind test compared to ‘normal adults’ and participants with Tourette’s syndrome
2) Females will perform significantly better on he theory of mind test compared to males
3) Participants who are impaired on the eyes task will also be impaired on the strange stories task

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Baron Cohen group 1: sample

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16 participants with high functioning autism (4) and asperges (12) all had moral intelligence, there were recruited from a variety of clinical sources, as well as adverts in the National Autistic Society magazine

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Baron Cohen group 2: sample

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50 ‘normal’ adults 25 males, 25 females who had no history of any psychiatric condition and were obtained via random sampling drawn from the general population of Cambridge which was held in the University of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry

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Baron Cohen group 3: sample

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10 people wit Tourette’s syndrome age matched with group 1 and 2 recruited from a tertiary referral centre in London which they were attending. People with tourette’s syndrome were used to help control some extraneous variables that could have affected the results

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Baron Cohen: controls

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  • All participants passed the Theory of Mind test based on 6 year old Theory of mind skills
  • All participants had normal intelligence and a disorder supposed to originate in the frontal lobe
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Baron Cohen: research method

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Quasi/natural experiment

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Baron Cohen: independent variable

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The type of person likely to ave TOM deficits was naturally occurring so could not be manipulated or controlled by the researchers

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Baron Cohen: dependent variable

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Performance score out of 25 on the Eyes Task measured by each participant

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Baron Cohen: experimental design

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Matched pairs design

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Baron Cohen: Eyes task procedure

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  • Participants shown black and white photographs or the eye region from 25 different faces taken from magazine photos and the size of the pictures were standardised
  • Picture shown for 3 seconds before the researcher asked which word best describes them
  • The target word to describe the mental state behind each pair of eyes was generated by four judges, the word pairs were then tested on a panel of eight judges blind to the hypotheses of the study
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Baron Cohen: Happe’s strange stories procedure

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  • Participants also tested on the validity of the eyes task (do they perform similar- concurrent validity)
  • Found autism and asperges sample were impaired on both the Happe’s strange stories task and the eye task so concurrent validity was established
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Baron Cohen: control task procedure

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Gender recognition- participants were shown the same images as in the eyes task but asked what gender the image was
Basic emotion- participants were shown images of whole faces and asked to identify the emotion displayed
- All tests presented in a random order and tested individually in a quiet room at home, clinic or lab

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Baron Cohen: mean score out of 25 on the Eyes task for each condition

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Autism/AS condition = 16.3
Normal = 20.3
Tourette’s = 20.4

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Baron Cohen: mean score on the gender control task for each condition

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Autism/AS condition = 24.1
Normal = 23.3
Tourette’s = 23.7

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Baron Cohen: mean score our of 25 on the theory of mind test between males and females

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Males = 18.8 
Females = 21.8
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Baron Cohen: hypothesis 3 result

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The autism and asperges syndrome were impaired on both the Happe’s strange stories tasks and the eyes task

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Baron Cohen: conclusions

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  • Adults with autism/AS do possess an impaired theory of mind
  • Supports the idea that the central deficit within high functioning autism and AS is a failure to fully develop the cognitive process of a theory of mind
  • Normal females shown to be better at recognising emotional states in the eyes than normal males on the Theory of Mind test
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Gould: aim

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To examine the early history of intelligence testing as conducted by Yerkes on army recruits in the USA during WW1

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Gould: research method

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Piece of empirical research, article review

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Gould: sample

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1.75 million army recruits from the USA during WW!, they were white americans, negroes and european immigrants

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Gould: army alpha test

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Test designed for people who were literate, consisting of 8 parts

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Gould: army beta test

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  • Test designed for people who were illiterate or who failed the army alpha test, this has 7 parts and consisted of a picture completion task
  • Instructions were written in English in three of seven parts the answers had to be given in writing, yet this was a test for illiterates
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Gould: individual spoken examination

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If recruits failed the other two tests, they were supposed to be given this however this rarely happened
- Every individual given a grade A-E with a plus or minus sign

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Gould: findings

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  • Average mental age of a white american adult was 13
  • European immigrants could be graded by their country of origin with the darker people of Southern Europe and the Slavs of Eastern Europe being less intelligent than the fair people of Western and Northern Europe
  • The black man had an average mental age of 10.41, the lighter the skin colour, the higher the score
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Gould: conclusions

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  • IQ tests are culturally specific and biased
  • IQ tests do not measure innate intelligence so often unreliable and invalid
  • Innappropriate, poorly administered IQ tests can lead to tragic consequences
  • Nations can be graded by their intelligence
  • America is a nation of morons
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Hancock: aim

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To use statistical analysis to examine the features of crime narratives provided by psychopaths homicide offenders. Psychopathic speech was predicted to reflect an instrumental/predatory world view, unique socioeconomical needs and a poverty of affect

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Hancock: research method

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Semi structured interviews and open ended questions

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Hancock: sample

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comprised of 52 psychopathic and non psychopathic male murdered incarcerated in Canadian correctional facilities who admitted their crime and volunteered for this study

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Hancock: procedure

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  • Potential participants to ask if interested, if they were then as interview was schedule which stated the purpose of the study and verbally explained the procedure
  • Participants asked to describe their homicide in as many details as possible
  • Interviewers consisted of 2 senior psychology graduate students and one research assistant, all blind to the psychopathy scores lasting 25 mins
  • Lastly, narratives transcribed and checked over
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Hancock: quantitative results

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  • The 14 psychopath narratives contained 29,562 words and averaged 2,201.5 per participant
  • The 38 control narratives contained 97,814 words and averaged 2,554.3 per participant
    So no significant difference
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Hancock: instrumental language analysis

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  • Psychopaths produced more subordinating conjunctions than controls
  • Pattern suggests psychopaths were more likely to have viewed the crime as a logical outcome of a plan, consistent with previous findings that their violence is indeed more instrumental and goal driven than that of their offenders
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Hancock: hierarchy of needs analysis

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  • Psychopaths used approximately twice a many words related to basic psychological needs including eating or drinking
  • Controls used significantly more language related to social needs including family and religion
  • Supports the idea psychopaths lack the capacity for bands and presumably the capacity for religious experience or spiritual experience or enlightenment, so describe the crime in a cool, detached manner and in terms of the basic psychological needs they met at the time
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Hancock: emotional expression of language

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  • Psychopaths use more past tense verbs than controls
  • Psychopaths used fewer present verbs than controls
  • Psychopaths produced a higher rate of articles than controls, revealing that their language involved more concrete nouns
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Hancock: conclusions

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  • Psychopaths more likely to describe cause and effect relationships when describing their murder
  • Psychopaths more likely to view crime as a logical outcome
  • Psychopaths gave less emotionally intense descriptions of their crimes and use less emotionally pleasant language than non-psychopaths

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