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Studying Autism: the 'Smartie tube' test
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- 1ResearcherPerner et al
- 2HypothesisAutistic children cannot guess what other people are thinking, even when they have had the same experience themselves. They have no ToM
- 3SampleAutistic children and normal children
- 4MethodShown a smartie tube, children are asked whats inside. They are surprised to be shown a pen is inside. Then asked what their friend will think is in the box
- 5ResultsAutistic children correctly answer 20% of the time; normal aged over 4, 100%
- 6Conclusionautistics will perform worse than ordinary children on a test that requires them to understand someone else has a belief that is different to theirs, even when they have been in the same position themselves
- 7Evaluationhow do you explain the 20% that pass? if wording of the questions is changed autistics as young as 3 can pass, demonstrating that it was the cognitive demand that caused the result not lack of ToM
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