WorksheetsOCR A level Psychology Core Study: Baron-Cohen et al. (1997)
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Baron-Cohen et al.'s (1997) research focuses on the difficulties of assessing autism. Typical characteristics of autism include which of the following?
Baron-Cohen et al (1997) suggest those on the autistic spectrum struggle with communication and social development due to an absence of ______.
Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) eye task involved participants ______.
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 ______.
Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) results showed autistic participants performed _______ on the eyes task.
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 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 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 weakness of Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) study is the sample was _____ and participants also ______ meaning generalisability is a problem.
A weakness of Baron-Cohen et al's (1997) study is as it was a quasi-experiment participants may not have been well matched ________.
