18 questions
Baron-Cohen used the original eyes test with people with Asperger's Syndrome and High Functioning Autism and compared their scores with people with
Tourettes
Schizophrenia
Social anxiety
Down syndrome
On the original test there was always a 50/50 chance of getting answer right meaning that to score significantly better than chance alone (i.e. guessing) participants had to score ...
13/25
15/25
17/25
19/25
As the original test was only out of 25 and people needed a score of 17/25 to score better than chance, there was only a scale of .... to indicate individual differences
9 points
7 points
5 points
11 points
Parents of people with autism scored similarly to their autistic sons and daughters meaning that the test was not able to detect more subtle difference between people with autism and people with the...
broader phenotype
narrower genotype
broader genotype
narrower phenotype
The original eyes test suffered from a .... meaning that many people scored very high making it impossible to discriminate between people who scored within the normal range but with subtle differences from each other.
floor effect
ceiling effect
roof effect
wall effect
By increasing the number of test items (from 25 to 36) and increasing the number of answer options from 2 to 4, people now needed to score only..... to be scoring higher than chance alone
13/36
17/36
25/36
27/36
The original eyes test included ...
only basic mental states
basic and complex mental states
only complex mental states
The revised eyes test included...
only basic mental states
basic and complex mental states
only complex mental states
The original eyes test also containing some items that could be solved by looking at the direction of the person gaze, e.g. ....these were too easy and did not really assess ability to decode mental states.
noticing
uncaring
excitable
trusting
The original eyes test contained more images of women's eyes than men's eyes.
true
false
The revised eyes test had a n equal number of pairs of male and female eyes meaning Baron-Cohen could also introduce a control condition, guessing the gender of the person in the image.
true
false
In the original test the words that the participant had to choose from were always opposites, e.g. concerned/unconcerned
true
false
Baron-Cohen states that in the revised eyes test the three foil words were always the same ... as the target word
valence
length
frequency
arousal
Emotional valecne refers to whether a words is more positive or more negative. The valence of target and foil words had to match on the revised eyes test, e.g. serious and
alarmed
joyous
glad
comforting
Including foils that were matched to the target's valence made the test...
easier
more difficult
People with autism often have a language delay. To overcome participants' potential comprehension difficulties, Baron-Cohen included a .... with the revised test so they could look up any words they did not understand
glossary
dictionary
thesaurus
lexicon
In his 2001 paper, Baron-Cohen was aiming to replicate the significant differences in social sensitivity that he had found in his original test but he also wanted to investigate
whether females scored higher on the revised eyes test than males
whether people with autism scored lower than people with Tourettes
whether there was a positive relationship between eyes test score and AQ
whether people with low intelligence scored lower than people with high intelligence
The Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) measures autistic traits and is scored out of...
25
36
50
75