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OCR A level Psychology Core Study: Baron-Cohen et al. (1997)

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

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Class
Date
1.

Baron-Cohen et al.'s (1997) research focuses on the difficulties of assessing autism. Typical characteristics of autism include which of the following?

a)
All other options
b)
Difficulties in communicat
c)
Difficulties in relationships
d)
Lack of imagination
2.

Baron-Cohen et al (1997) suggest those on the autistic spectrum struggle with communication and social development due to an absence of ______.

a)
Theory of Mind
b)
Theory of the Unconscious
c)
Theory of Psychosexual development
d)
Theory of perception
3.
Baron-Cohen et al (1997) aimed to study whether _____ adults with autism and Asperger Syndrome would struggle with a more difficult test for theory of mind, the eyes test.
a)
high functioning
b)
high maintenance
c)
highly strung
d)
high intelligence
4.
Baron-Cohen et al (1997) aimed to discover if the eyes test was particularly hard for people on the autistic spectrum by comparing them with ______.
a)
a control group with no clinical condition and people with Tourette's Syndrome
b)
a control group with another clinical condition and people with Tourette's Syndrome
c)
people with Tourette's Syndrome
d)
a control group with no clinical condition
5.
Baron-Cohen et al (1997) sample were recruited throught their _____ in response to an advert in the National Autistic Society's magazine.
a)
doctors
b)
psychiatrist
c)
psychologist
d)
parents
6.
Baron-Cohen et al (1997) sample consisted of _______.
a)
13 men and 3 women with autism, a control group of 25 men and 25 women, and 8 men and 2 women with Tourette's Syndrome
b)
143 women with autism, a control group of 25 men, and 8 men and 2 women with Parkinson's Disease
c)
15 men with autism, a control group of 25 men, and 2 women with Impostor Syndrome
d)
16 men and 3 women with autism, a control group of 25 men and 25 women, and 8 men and 2 women with Tourette's Syndrome
7.
Baron-Cohen et al (1997) used a second 'control group' of people with Tourette's Syndrome because it has key elements in common with autism, e.g. _______.
a)
All other options
b)
Causes disruption to schooling and peer relations
c)
Exist in early childhood
d)
Is believed to be associated with a problem in the frontal lobes of the brain
8.
Baron-Cohen et al (1997) study used which experimental design?
a)
Independent groups
b)
Repeated measures
c)
Matched pairs
d)
Longitudinal
9.

Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) eye task involved participants ______.

a)
identifying the person's gender and a basic emotion identification task
b)
identifying the person's gender
c)
a basic emotion identification task
d)
identifying the person's gender and a complex emotion identification task
10.
Which test did Baron-Cohen et al (1997) use to validate the eyes task?
a)
Happe's strange stories
b)
Horrible histories
c)
Happe's unusual circumstances
d)
Happy Monday's Greatest Hits
11.

As the participants of Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) study were assigned to their experimental group due to their existing characteristics it was a ______.

a)
quasi-experiment
b)
lab experiment
c)
field experiment
d)
longitudinal experiment
12.
Baron-Cohen et al (1997) assumed that if participants performed poorly on the eyes test they should also _______.
a)
struggle with Happe's Strange Stories
b)
perform well on Happe's Strange Stories
c)
struggle with identifying gender
d)
struggle with the Sally-Anne task
13.

Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) results showed autistic participants performed _______ on the eyes task.

a)
significantly worse
b)
significantly better
c)
similarly
d)
all other options
14.

Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) results showed no participants in the Tourette's group were _____ in any Strange Stories responses but the autistic participants ______ performed _______ on the eyes task.

a)
incorrect; struggled
b)
correct; struggled
c)
struggled; incorrect
d)
struggled; correct
15.
Baron-Cohen et al (1997) concluded that even ______ with autism have a theory of mind deficit, i.e. they find it ____ to read the mental states of others.
a)
high functioning; hard
b)
non functioning; hard
c)
high functioning; easy
d)
high factoring; hard
16.
Baron-Cohen et al (1997) concluded the eyes task is a _______ test of theory of mind for high-functioning ______.
a)
valid; adults with autism
b)
invalid; adults with autism
c)
reliable; adults with autism
d)
generalisable; adults with autism
17.
A strength of Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) study is it was carried out in a controlled setting meaning it had _______.
a)
high internal validity
b)
high external validity
c)
high concurrent validity
d)
high temporal validity
18.

A strength of Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) study is the data gathered was ______ which allows ______ of the conditions, clearly showing ToM is worse in the autism group.

a)
quantitative; easy comparison
b)
qualitative; easy comparison
c)
quantitative; easy completion
d)
quantitative; easy computation
19.
A strength of Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) study is reliability of the procedure was good because _______.
a)
All other options
b)
participants were shown pictures of the same size
c)
participants were shown pictures for the same length of time
d)
participants were given standardised instructions
20.
A strength of Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) study is it had good ethics because _______.
a)
All other options
b)
Particpants were not deceived
c)
Particpants did not experience psychological distress
d)
Volunteer participants gave their informed consent
21.
A weakness of Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) study is identifying emotions by just looking at someone's eyes is unlike a real-life experience therefore the study lacks ______.
a)
ecological validity
b)
internal validity
c)
experimental validity
d)
face validity
22.

A weakness of Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) study is by only collecting quantitative data participants were unable to comment on what they experienced or found difficult about the task meaning ______ that could have added to the completedness of findings.

a)
there was a lack of qualitative data
b)
there was a lack of subjective data
c)
there was a lack of intermittent data
d)
there was a lack of nominal data
23.

A weakness of Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) study is the sample was _____ and participants also ______ meaning generalisability is a problem.

a)
small; male
b)
small; volunteer
c)
small; female
d)
small; atypical
24.

A weakness of Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) study is as it was a quasi-experiment participants may not have been well matched ________.

a)
for all the relevant variables
b)
for any variables
c)
for some variables
d)
for extraneous variables
25.
An application of Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) study is it might be possible to teach ______. (Select more than one answer)
a)
people on the autistic spectrum to make use of different visual cues to read emotion
b)
those interacting with people on the autistic spectrum to give very clear visual and verbal cues to signal what they are feeling.
c)
people on the autistic spectrum to make use of the usual visual cues to read emotion
d)
those interacting with people on the autistic spectrum not to give very clear visual and verbal cues to signal what they are feeling.