situation could have induced stress in the
participants as any test conditions can this would
break the ethical guideline or protection
ethical = YES
DC COWPAD
however breaks routine/ stressed/
autistics struggle with eye contact
EV
took place in a lab =
highly controlled
unnatural surrounding
for the participants
unrepresentative data
means that the results are
ungeneraliseable to most people
used pictures of real eyes
mostly look at the eyes
realistic
Data
QUANTITATIVE data was collected
scores of each subject on
each of the test administered
eyes task measured
whether the subjects had
TOM, they saw no need
for qualitative data to be
collected
Reliability
easy to replicate
concurrent validity was checked
checked validity
by doing the
control tasks
low EV= not realistic
when judging emotions
Validity
easy to replicate
highly controlled because
it is an experiment
always stayed in the same location
Sample
the sample was small = unrepresentative
16 Autistics
50 Non-Autistics
10 Tourettes
Usefulness
most people on the autistic spectrum lack TOM and
thus knowledge can inform various techniques for
people educating and interacting with autistic people