EVALUATE TOM Flashcards
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FOR
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- baron Cohen et al used eye task to asses ToM defecits 15 ASD adults and 239 non ASD controls
- ASD performed significantly worse which implicated impaired ability to understand others emotions
- Ofer Golan et al did similar test but with spoken phrases adult ASD were impaired in recognising emotional cues in vocal expression
- both support validity of ToM deficit in ASD
2
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AGAINST
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- tager-Flusberg accepts that it can explain social impairments but not successful for explain non social features such as obsessive interests and repetitive behaviours under DMV diagnosis
- nor count for cognitive strengths such as attention skills
- happe and frith highlight that 20% of children who passed false belief test of baron Cohen some adults even passed the more sensitive and less language dependent eyes and voices gets ToM cannot explain these findings so explanation lacks validity
3
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APPLICATION
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- psychologists devised many ways in which people with ASD can be helped to mind read
- eg social stories intervention by carol gray these stories highlight social cues and varying perspectives in everyday social situations helps ASD understand unwritten rules of interaction and thoughts and feelings of others
- ToM has helped in development of creative ways of helping people with ASD over come social deficits
4
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ALTERNATIVE
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- assuming ToM is only explaintion is reductionist and ignores other equally plausible explanations
