The Baron-Cohen Page
Here is the study that you need to learn for the core studies exams.
Everything else on this page is extra useful stuff.
You can also find all of the past exam questions on Baron-Cohen's study here.
There is a comprehension exercise here.
You can read a PDF of the original study hereThere is some interactive stuff too. Here is a multiple choice quiz and here is a match the questions and a match the ages.
The National Autistic Society home page also provides lots of useful information on autism.
Here is an article by Simon Baron-Cohen arguing that autism may be on the rise because people with autistic-like traits tend to mate with partners who also have such traits
The
autism research centre is an excellent site to visit.
You can also find much more about
Simon's work on this site.
The glossary has a brief summary of this study.
Simon Baron-Cohen
You can take Baron-Cohen's 50-question Autism-Spectrum Quotient Test here.
More Stuff
More pages.- Cognitive Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Individual Differences
- Physiological Psychology
- Social Psychology
And A Bit More Stuff
Some more pages.
- About (just stuff about this site)
- Core Studies 2 (a quick link to stuff about this paper)
- Exam Questions (past exam questions of course)
- Shop (you know you want to buy something)
- Links (nearly as fab as books)
- PsychBlog (great blog dedicated to OCR psychology)
- Further reading (books are fab)
- A Level Psychology (that stuff you do in the 2nd year)
- LearnByIt (where you can buy stuff that I have written)
- Learn Psychology (great site for any students of psychology)
- ClickPsych.com (you can submit a psychology site here)
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