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PROS-  All participants were volunteers and were not deceived meaning no distress was experienced.
- Quantitative data allows for direct comparison of the conditions clearly showing that theory of mind was worse in the autism group.

CONS- Volunteer sampling is NOT representative.
- Ecological validity was poor as the situation is very different from an everyday real-life social situation.

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1) What was the aim of the study?
2) Why was a quasi experiment used?
3) What sampling method was used to collect participants?
4) What was one result that Baron-Cohen collected?
6) Give one similarity between Freud and Baron-Cohen's study.
7) Give one weakness of the study.

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Even high-functioning adults with autism, including those with Asperger Syndrome, have a significant problem with their theory of mind. In other words, they find it hard to read mental strates in other people. This supports the idea that the theory of mind deficet is central to understanding autism.

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1) On the control tasks, all groups performed normally on tasks they completed. However, in the eyes task, the autism group did significantly worse than other groups.

2) No participants in the touretes group were incorrect in any of the strange stories responses, but the autism group struggled.

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- Quasi/natural experiment
- Participants shown 25 black and white photos of eyes for 3 seconds each, and were asked to choose between 2 mental states represented by the pictures using words shown to them.
inate the possibility of eye problems in the autism group, all participants gad to complete two tasks- gender recognition test and basic emotion recognition test.
-It was argued that the eyes task measured the theory of mind ability. Participants with autism and tourettes took another test named 'Happes Strange Stories'. If the eyes task measures theory of mind ability, then those who struggle with it should also score less well in the strange stories test.

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Autism group- 13 men, 3 women of normal intelligence who had been diagnosed with high functioning autism or aspergers.
Control group- 25 men, 25 women with no autism diagnosis
Tourettes group- 8 men, 2 women

Participants were selected via volunteer sampling through doctors and an advert in the National A.S. magazine

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To test whether adults with high-functiong autism and Asperger syndrome would struggle witha a new and more difficult test for theory of mind.