Theory of Mind: Sally and her Marble
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What is the main purpose of the strange stories test in assessing Theory of Mind (ToM) development?

  • To evaluate the participant's ability to draw inferences about mental states from speech samples
  • To measure the level of ToM development based on the participant's justification of people's behavior in everyday situations (correct)
  • To test the participant's ability to differentiate between their own and another person's representation of an object
  • To assess the participant's capacity to infer the mental state of people from photographs of their eye region
  • Which of the following statements best describes the key finding from the study on the strange stories test?

  • High-functioning autists and those who passed second-order ToM tasks failed to justify the behavior of people in the stories (correct)
  • High-functioning autists and those who passed second-order ToM tasks were not included in the study on the strange stories test
  • High-functioning autists and those who passed second-order ToM tasks performed equally well on the strange stories test
  • High-functioning autists and those who passed second-order ToM tasks were able to justify the behavior of people in the stories
  • What is the main purpose of the eyes task in assessing Theory of Mind (ToM) development?

  • To test the participant's level of ToM development based on their justification of people's behavior in everyday situations
  • To assess the participant's ability to draw inferences about mental states from speech samples
  • To evaluate the participant's capacity to infer the mental state of people from photographs of their eye region (correct)
  • To measure the participant's ability to differentiate between their own and another person's representation of an object
  • What is the key finding from the study on the Reading the Mind in the Voice test?

    <p>Participants with ASD or high-functioning autism gave fewer correct answers than the adult control groups in inferring mental states from speech samples</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main purpose of the photograph task in assessing Theory of Mind (ToM) development?

    <p>To assess the participant's ability to distinguish the current position of an object from the past position of an object</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main criticism or problem with the Theory of Mind (ToM) deficit theory discussed in the text?

    <p>The ToM deficit theory fails to explain the performance of high-functioning autists and those who passed second-order ToM tasks on the strange stories test</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following tasks is designed to measure the participant's ability to differentiate between their own representation of an object and another person's representation of an object?

    <p>False-belief task</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following tasks is designed to assess the participant's capacity to infer the mental state of people from photographs of their eye region?

    <p>Eyes task</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following tasks is designed to evaluate the participant's ability to draw inferences about mental states from speech samples?

    <p>Reading the Mind in the Voice test</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the key finding from the study on the eyes task?

    <p>Adults with autism performed significantly less than people with Tourette's and healthy adults on the eyes task</p> Signup and view all the answers

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