Cognitive Psychology

What was the aim of Baron-Cohen's study

What is theory of Mind?

Why was the group with Autism compared to a group with Tourette's Syndrome in Baron-Cohen's study?

Who were the Participants in Baron-Cohen's study?

Where were participants tested in Baron-Cohen's study?

How were the pictures for the Eye's Test created for Baron-Cohen's study?

What happened in the Eye's Task for Baron-Cohen's study?

How were the mental state terms decided on in Baron-Cohen's study?

In Baron-Cohen's study, who was tested on Happe's Strange Stories task and why?

Which group participated in the two control tasks in Baron-Cohen's study and why?

What were the two control tasks in Baron-Cohen's study?

Why was the Gender Recognition Task used in Baron-Cohen's study?

Why was the Basic Emotion Recognition task used in Baron-Cohen's study?

What was the mean performance for each group on Baron-Cohen's eye test?

In Baron-Cohen's study, what did the results of Happe's Strange Stories Task show?

In Baron-Cohen's study, what were the results for the Gender and Emotion control tasks?

In Baron-Cohen's study, what were the gender differences of the 'Normal' group's mean performance of the Eye's Task?

What conclusions did Baron-Cohen make?

How was Baron-Cohen's finding (that a core deficit of Autism is a lack of advanced theory of mind skills) justified?

What was the aim of Loftus and Palmer's study?

In Loftus and Palmer's first Experiment, who were the participants?

What was the procedure of Loftus and Palmer's first experiment?

What was the independent variable in Loftus and Palmer's first experiment?

What were the average ratings of speed for each condition in Loftus and Palmer's first experiment?

What finding supports the idea that the experimental groups, in Loftus and Palmer's first experiment, were not very good at estimating speed?

What were the two conclusions that Loftus and Palmer reached in the first experiment?

Why did Loftus and Palmer conduct a second experiment?

Who were the participants in Loftus and Palmer's second experiment?

Describe the procedure of Loftus and Palmer's second experiment.

What was the independent variable of Loftus and Palmer's second experiment?

What were the findings for Loftus and Palmer's second experiment?

What conclusion did Loftus and Palmer make after their second experiment?

What was the aim of Savage-Rumbaugh's study?

How was Savage-Rumbaugh's study longitudinal?

Why is their low researcher bias in Savage-Rumbaugh's comparison between Pygmy and Common chimpanzees?

Why is Savage-Rumbaugh's study a quasi/natural experiment?

How old were the chimpanzees when Savage-Rumbaugh's report was written?

How was the lexigram used in Savage-Rumbaugh's study?

Why was the lexigram used in Savage-Rumbaugh's study?

What were the differences between the rearing environments of the chimpanzees in Savage-Rumbaugh's study?

What were the similarities between the rearing environments of the chimpanzees in Savage-Rumbaugh's study?

How were the utterances of Kanzi and Mulika classified in Savage-Rumbaugh's study?

In Savage-Rumbaugh's study, what was the criteria that had to be met before a word could be included in Kanzi and Mulika's vocabulary?

How did Savage-Rumbaugh ensure that data has been accurately recorded?

In Savage-Rumbaugh's study, how did the Pygmy chimpanzees compare to the common chimpanzees on the formal tests?

In Savage-Rumbaugh's study, how did the Pygmy chimpanzees' gesture use compare to that of the common chimpanzees?

What were the main differences between the pygmy and common chimpanzees as summarized by Savage-Rumbaugh?

What did Savage-Rumbaugh conclude?