Eyes Task Flashcards
What type of experiment was this?
Quasi/Natural
People with Autism lack a…….
Theory of mind
The IV in this task occurred
Naturally
Group 1 had how many people with Autism
16
Group two had 50 ……….. adults
Normal
Group three had 10 adults with ……..
Tourette’s
The mean score for adults with tourettes was
20.4
The mean score for the autistic group was
16.3
The mean score for the normal group was
20.3
The range for the Autism group was
13-23
The range for the normal group was
16-25
The range for the Tourette’s group was
16-25
Within Autism there was no significant correlation between
IQ and performance on the eyes task
Name one conclusion that could be drawn for this experiment
People with Autism may possess a theory of mind
Name a second conclusion that could be made from this study
Theory of mind deficits may be due to general intelligence
How many faces were shown
25
How many emotions were shown in the basic recognition task
6
How many males and females were there in the normal group
25 males and 25 females
What was the gender recognition task
P’s were shown a set of eyes and had to identify the gender or the individual in the photograph
What was the strange stories task
P’s were read a scenario to test theory of mind by the P’s correctly answering TOM questions from the scenario
