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WorksheetsLook into my eyes! Baron-Cohen Revision
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
Baron-Cohen's research is one of the studies in the Individual Differences Area. Which one of these is a feature of IDA?
Behaviour is influenced by social factors
Behaviour is influenced by the unconscious mind
Behaviour is considered to be unique
Behaviour is influenced by thoughts
One common way to measure unique behaviour in the IDA is through the use of...
Psychometric tests (e.g. IQ and personality tests)
Highly controlled lab experiments
Field experiments
Natural experiments
One strength of the IDA approach is research...
Can show clear cause and effect
Research supports the Psychology as a Science debate
Research can be usefully applied to everyday life
Research is often unethical
One weakness of the IDA is that research...
cannot be applied to everyday life
can sometimes be socially sensitive and unethical
can offer insight into unique behaviours
cannot be analysed
What debate does this refer to? 'Is it our personality or is it the environment that makes us behave in the way we do?'
Free-will v determinism
Individual (disposition) v situation
Reductionism v holism
Idiographic v nomothetic
What three things might people with Autism struggle with? Select 3 answers.
Imagination
Watching netflix
Social interaction
Verbal/non-verbal communication
What is this a definition of? 'The ability to infer, in other people, a range of mental states e.g. beliefs, desires, intentions, imaginations and emotions.'
Theory of Everything
Theory of Mind
Theory of Driving
Theory of Knowledge
Another test used to measure Theory of Mind uses dolls. What are the names of the two dolls?
Sophie and Claudia
Sam and Cat
Simona and Corrina
Sally and Anne
There is a problem with the Sally-Anne Test. Some people with Autism were successful with people with a mental age of <6. What is this called?
Clever Effect
Ceiling Effect
Complex Effect
Calculated Effect
The Eyes Task involved participants looking at 25 photos of eyes. Select the correct description of the photos.
Black and white, 20cm x 25cm, from midway along nose to above eyebrow
Colour pictures, 10cm x 15cm, from midway along nose to above eyebrow
Black and white, 10cm x 15cm, from bottom of the nose to midway along forehead
Black and white, 10cm x 15cm, from midway along nose to above eyebrow
Which of these was NOT included in the research?
16 people with highly functioning autism (4) and AS (12)
50 normal age matched adults
52 Canadian male psychopaths
10 adults with Tourette Syndrome
Why were people with Tourette's included as a control group?
AS and TS are both organic (possibly genetic) disorders that begin in childhood
People with AS and TS have an ‘normal’ IQ
Both may cause disruptions to schooling and peer relationships
All of the above
Which three of the following are examples of the emotional word states used (target and foil) to describe the eyes? Select 3
Concerned - Unconcerned
Sad - Happy
Friendly- Hostile
Sad thought - Happy thought
One of the control tasks specifically measured TOM. What was the name of the test?
Happe's Strange Times
Happe's Stranger Things
Mr Happy's Stories
Happe's Strange Stories
Happe's Strange Stories was used to check the validity of Eyes Task. If people with AS lacked TOM the scores would be similar on both tests. What type of validity is this?
Construct validity
Ecological validity
Concurrent validity
Criterion validity
The researchers couldn't manipulate the IV. Participants have AS/TS or they do not. What research method is this?
Quantitative experiment
Quasi experiment
Qualitative experiment
Quick experiment
Another control task was the Basic Emotions Task. Which of these is not one of the basic emotions (identified by Ekman)?
Angry
Concerned
Happy
Sad
Participants with AS had a mean score of 16.3. Those with TS had a mean score of 20.34. What do these results tell us about people with AS?
People with AS lack a Theory of Mind
People with AS are less intelligent
People with AS don't like black and white pictures
People with AS don't like photos sized 10cm x 15cm
Researchers concluded that there is no correlation between lack of TOM and IQ. How would you display correlational data?
Bar chart
Line graph
Pie chart
Scattergraph
When conducting correlational analysis what non-parametric statistical test could you use?
Mann-Whitney U
Wilcoxon
Sign Test
Spearman's Rank
