Discuss in detail Baron–Cohen’s concept of Mindblindness as it relates to children with autism spectrum disorder and provide examples.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: His evidence comes from the more advanced forms of mind reading (SAM and ToMM) and empathizing (TESS) which are typically absent or significantly delayed in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which is characterized by severe social and communication disabilities. He claims that the primary deficit of these children is an inability to read minds, or what he calls mind blindness. Evidence for this comes from studies in which children with ASD are presented with false-belief and other theory-of-mind tasks and consistently fail them, despite performing well on other, nonsocial tasks. This is in contrast to children with intellectual impairment, such as Down Syndrome, who perform the theory-of-mind tasks easily, despite often doing poorly on other tasks that assess more general intelligence. Most children with ASD are able to perform well on the simple tasks requiring ID, EDD, OR TED modules, but they fail tasks involving SAM and, especially, ToMM and TESS.
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