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Studying Autism: comic strip stories
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- 1ResearcherBaron-Cohen et al
- 2HypothesisAutistic children have a specific deficit in understanding the thoughts of others, although not logical thinking in general. No ToM
- 3SampleAutistic, Down's and normal children
- 4MethodChildren had to arrange sequences of comic strip pictures in the right order, then explain the story. Stories depicted physical/mechanical events, behavioural events or mentalistic/belief stories
- 5ResultsAutistic children perform worse on the mentalistic story but better on the other 2
- 6ConclusionAutistics perform worse than other groups on a test requiring them to understand the beliefs of characters, but not on the tests requiring understanding of physical/behavioural events
- 7Evaluation; strengthsuse of matched control group increases the validity of the results
- 8Evaluation; LimitationsA picture sequencing task is artificial i.e. not a task that represents everyday behaviour
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