An educational psychologist is planning to use Baron-Cohen et al.’s 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' task to screen for social communication difficulties in a diverse group of adults.
Explain one reason why the use of complex emotional descriptors (such as 'despondent' or 'preoccupied') in this task might threaten its construct validity.
47 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Understanding disorders, covering Freud (1909): Little Hans and Baron-Cohen et al. (1997): Autism in adults. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.