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What is the assumption of the individual differences area?

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Assumes behaviour is influenced by differences within individuals. For example mental disorders and autism.

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What is the key theme of individual differences?

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Understanding disorders

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What are the 2 studies in the individual differences area?

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Contemporary= Baren-Cohen

Classic= Freud

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What is theory of mind?

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The ability to understand that other people have independent minds of their own

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What was the old theory of mind test?

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The sally anne test

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Why did Baron-Cohen decide to devise a new test for theory of mind?

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Wanted to know if high functioning adults with autism and aspergers also have difficulty with mind reading

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What were the 3 conditions in baron-cohen’s study?

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Autism/Aspergers
Normal
Tourette’s

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How many were in the austistic condition?

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16
males= 13
females= 3

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How many were in the normal condition?

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50
males= 25
females= 25

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How many were in the tourette’s condition?

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10
males= 8
females= 2

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how many participants were the altogether in baron-cohen’s study?

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76

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What were all 3 conditions intelligence levels?

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Normal

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How were the autistic condition recruited? What sampling method?

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Variety of clinical sources and magazine ads

Volunteer

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How did the normal condition recruit participants? What sampling method?

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selected randomly through cambridge university

Random

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How did the tourette’s condition recruit participants? What sampling method?

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Referral centre in london

Opportunity

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Where were participants tested in baron-cohen’s study?

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Individually in a quiet room in their homes, the researchers clinic or laboratory at the university

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How many tasks were there in Baron-Cohen’s study?

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4
Always given in a randomised order 
The eyes task
Happe’s strange stories task
Gender Recognition Task 
Basic Emotion Recognition Task
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What happened in the Eyes task?

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Shown 25 pictures of eyes for 3 seconds. Had to choose from 1 or 2 mental states that the eyes portrayed in the picture e.g. Calm Vs Anxious
Pictures were always 15 x 10cm, black and white and all taken from magazines

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What were 2 findings from the eyes task?

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Autistic condition mean score was 16.3 out of 25 and the normal condition was 20.3 out of 25

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Why could you conclude about the eyes task?

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People with autism lack theory of mind compared to both normal and tourette’s patients who performed significantly better

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What happened in the Happe’s strange stories task?

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The normal condition didn’t do this.
They were read stories which incorporated white lies, jokes, figures of speech and they had to say why the characters did what they did.
This was used to check the validity for the eyes task because it was a test for concurrent validity.

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What was one finding from Happe’s strange stories task?

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Subjects with autism made errors and were significantly impaired on this task compared to other groups

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What can you conclude about the Happe’s strange stories task?

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Shows validity for eyes test as it provides similar findings

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What happened in the gender recognition task?

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To see if p’s could identify the facial cue of gender. It was a control task scored out of 25 using the same sets of eyes as used in the eyes task. they had to state the gender of the person in each photograph

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What happened in the basic emotion recognition task?

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To see if p’s could detect basic emotion. Shown pictures of whole faces which would show one of six basic emotions

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What were the 2 control tasks in baron cohen’s study?

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Gender and emotion recognition

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What were the 6 emotions in the recognition task?

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Happy
Sad
Angry 
Afraid
Surprise 
Disgust
28
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What was a finding from the basic emotion recognition task and the gender recognition task in baron cohen’s study?

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No real difference between groups

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What could you conclude about the gender recognition task?

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Autistic group could detect gender

30
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What could you conclude about the basic emotion recognition task?

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Autistic group were able to detect emotion

If they failed on either control tasks they would definitely have been impaired on the eyes test

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What research method was used in baron cohen’s study?

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Quasi

32
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What was the research design on baron cohen’s study?

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Independent measures

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What was the independent variable in baron cohen’s study?

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The group the participants were in

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What was the dependent variable in baron cohen’s study

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The score on the four tests

35
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What theory did freud want to investigate?

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The psychodynamic perspective

36
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What were the 5 psychosexual stages?

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Oral stage
Anal stage
Phallic stage 
Latency stage
Genital stage
37
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What is the oedipus complex and when does it occur?

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Name comes from classical greek tragedy which oedipus kills his father and marries his mother and it occurs in the phallic stage

38
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What are the 3 levels of the mind?

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Conscious
Pre-conscious
Unconscious

39
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What are the 3 parts to our personality?

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ID ( from birth, desires and no rational thought )
Ego ( 1-3 no moral bias but know from what’s socially acceptable )
Superego ( 3-5 internal rules and moral code )

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What are the 3 defence mechanisms and which part of the personality are they?

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Repression
Displacement
Denial
Part of the ego

41
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What are the sample details of freud’s study?

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Little hans aged between 3-5 during study and was austrian

42
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What was Little Hans phobia?

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Horses

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How did Freud gain his data?

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Hans father was a follower of freud and gathered data about Hans dreams, fears and fantasies through observations and conversations with Hans.
His father would then relay this to freud.
Freud only met Hans once

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Why was Hans afraid of horses?

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He became scared of white horses and that they would bite him, especially ones with black around their mouths

45
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What was freud’s interpretation of hans phobia of horses?

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Represented a fear of his dad with a dark moustache (DISPLACEMENT) his dad told him to be careful not to get bitten. This was evidence of the oedipus complex

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What happened in Hans giraffe dream?

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Big giraffe calling out because Hans had taken the crumpled giraffe away from it and Hans then sat on the crumpled one

47
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What did Freud say about the giraffe dream?

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Symbolises what happens in the parents ben in the morning, Hans comes in to see his mum and dad objects.
Evidence for oedipus complex

48
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What happened in hans parenting/marrying fantasy?

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Hans fantasised about marrying his mum and playing father to his own children

49
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What did freud say about the parenting/ marrying fantasy?

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Hans made space for his father in his life but he was made to be the grandfather.
This showed the resolution for the oedipus complex

50
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What method did freud use?

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Case study method

51
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What is one strength and one weakness of a case study?

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S= gathers lots of information that’s in-depth data about that individual

W= hard to generalise findings as small sample

52
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What are conclusions about freud’s study?

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Supports freud’s theory of psychosexual development

Behaviour is deterministic

53
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Give 3 differences between freud and baron cohen’s study

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Freud=small sample size and baron cohen= large (76)

Freud=case study Baron cohen= Quasi

Freud = longitudinal Baron Cohen = snapshot

54
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give 3 similarities between freud and baron cohen’s study?

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Both look at disorders
Part of data collected in own home
Normal intelligence levels

55
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Give a strength and weakness of the individual differences area?

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S= Has useful applications so support can be put in place to help individuals with differences

W= Focuses mainly on individuals so sampled are restricted

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