Reading The Mind Test Summary

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They also talk about the revised version of the ‘‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test’’. In this they tested 120 people. Where they dived people into four different groups by age with 30 people each of the groups. The young group was 20-25, 45 to 55 was the early middle aged group, 55 to 65 was the late middle aged group, and 70 to 75 was the elderly group. They also used education levels, sex, and male to female ratios to match the groups. They excluded people with histories of neuropsychiatric disease, education below college level, drug or alcohol abuse. They also had to have a “Mini Mental State Examination” with a score above 27. These people were also asked to a “clock drawing” test where they had to a clock with its hands on 1:45, and then copy a picture of clock. They could not have an errors on this test. They were not paid for their time and gave an informed consent before the test. Once the 120 people were selected and put into their groups they were given 36 different pictures of the eye region of different actors and actresses. Then asked to choose between four different words pertaining to emotions, to describe what the person in the picture was thinking/feeling. They were not given a time frame to complete the test either. …show more content…
In contrast with the results of Happe`, and in line with the work of Mayor and Sullivan. They ended up finding an age related decline in the theory of minds capacities. This made them focus on the middle age group which was not very different from the young group. Both groups ended up having better scores when compared with the other two groups. Another finding was the old middle age group was they had a deficit if they were compared to the younger of the two groups. When compared to the elderly group they were less impaired. They bat theory of mind studies become more relevant after age 55. Which made them feel like further research was required to collect more “normative