What is Volunteer, Opportunity, and Random Selection?

What is a lab, natural (autistic group), and questionnaire experiment?

What is the "Reading the mind in the eyes" test?

Females scored higher on the R-ET
Males scored higher on the AQ test
(Researchers said the sample was not large enough)

What is High Functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, and Tourette Syndrome?

What is Group 1 (IQ 115) and Group 4 (IQ 116)?
(created a control and allowed for a comparison)

What is 5 out of 8 judges?

What is the ability to attribute different mental states to oneself or others
(Stage 1: being able to attribute different mental states...Stage 2: being able to infer content related to the mental state)

What is inversely correlated? (Those that scored higher on the AQ test scored lower on the Eyes Test and vice versa.

What is a quiet room at Cambridge?
(Artificial lab setting; lacks ecological validity)

What is the lack of generalizability? What is a small sample of AS (15 adults of similar adults)?

-To test a group of adults with AS or HFA in order to check if the same deficit had been found in the original test and related tests could be replicated.
-To test if in a sample of normal adults an inverse correlation could be found with performance on the test and the Autism Spectrum quotient (AQ)
-To see if the sex difference (female superiority) found on the original version of the test could be replicated

Problem 1: 2 word choices caused the ceiling effect
Problem 2: Narrow range of items, didn't allow differentiation between groups
Problem 3: Ceiling effect
Problem 4: Items to easy because they included basic emotions
Problem 5: Photos easily guess because of direction of eye gaze
Problem 6: More female faces
Problem 7: Words were semantic opposites (unhappy & happy), therefore too easy to guess
Problem 8: Words not understood by participant

Worse, all.
(AS/HFA- 21.9, G2- 26.2, G3- 28, G4- 30.9)

Pilot tests showed that “normal” adults achieved 100% when identifying gender.

What is the lack of withdrawing? (as they volunteered) What is large numbers acquired easily?

What is independent measures? ; Someone with autism can't be tested with the "normal" adults

What is error? (recognizing error allowed them to revise the problems developing a better "eyes" test.

-AS/HFA adults are significantly impaired in identifying social interaction cues.
-The results of the study also demonstrated that the R-ET is useful in identifying impairments related to AS/HFA.

What are complicated emotions (differing from basic emotions such happy and sad)?
What is problem 4?
(without complex mental states, it was easy to recognize emotion, complexity allows the test the ability to prove the results were directly affected by the questionnaire & attempted to eliminate guessing).

What is:
Group 1: 15 male adults with AS/HFA, mean IQ of 115
Group 2: 122 normal adults, ranges of education and occupations
Group 3: 103 undergraduate students, 50 female & 53 males with high IQ's
Group 4: 14 randomly selected individuals from general population, IQ matched with group 1 (IQ 116)

1. The AS/HFA group will score lower on the Eyes test than all other groups participating.
2. The AS/HFA group will score higher on the AQ than all other groups participating.
3. “Normal” females will score higher than males on the Eyes Test
4. - “Normal” males will score higher than females on the AQ
5. - Scores on both AQ and the Eyes Test would be inversely correlated.

Not including the "full picture" limits how one determines emotional states. (the second attribution; inferring the content of that mental state)

What is no correlation?

What is the measurement of the mind
(IQ or personality test)
Limitations include:
too few choices & too easy
(measure of intelligence would be inaccurate as
(many people would pass due to the fact it wasn't complex. participants might also guess what the researchers want them to say & if chance played too huge of a part in it)