In the Baron-Cohen et al. (1997) 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' study, what was the primary methodological reason for including the Gender Recognition Task?
To match the participants in the clinical group with those in the control groups based on their baseline facial recognition speed.
To act as a validation task to confirm that the Eyes Task measured the same underlying Theory of Mind construct as Happé's Strange Stories.
To rule out the possibility that poor performance on the Eyes Task was due to general deficits in facial perception rather than a specific impairment in Theory of Mind.
To determine whether the gender of the person in the photograph significantly influenced the accuracy of mental state attributions.
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.