AICE Psychology Midterm Study(Baron-Cohen)

1) Suggest two problems that could arise if children were used as participants in the study by Baron-Cohen et al. (eyes test).

Children may struggle to understand complex emotion words, and they may have shorter attention spans, reducing reliability.

2A) In the study by Baron-Cohen et al. (eyes test), a control task was used to be certain that the AS/HFA participants could use information from pictures of eyes to make simple judgements.

• Identify this control task.

The control task was gender recognition.

2B) Outline what participants were required to do in this control task.

Participants looked at pictures of eyes and decided whether they belonged to a male or female, showing they could interpret basic visual information.