Jarrold C, Smith P, Boucher J, Harris P
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
J Autism Dev Disord. 1994 Aug;24(4):433-55. doi: 10.1007/BF02172127.
In an attempt to tap underlying competencies, the ability of children with autism to comprehend pretend acts carried out by an experimenter was compared with that shown by controls. These acts consisted of the pouring of a pretend substance from an appropriate container onto a target figure. There was no significant difference in the groups' ability to identify the pretend substance involved, to predict the pretend outcome of the actions, or to reflect on the pretend nature of the episodes. However, the performance of controls on these latter two tasks was surprisingly poor, limiting the implications that might be drawn from the observed absence of group differences in comprehension abilities.
为了挖掘潜在能力，研究人员将自闭症儿童理解实验者进行的假装行为的能力与对照组儿童的能力进行了比较。这些行为包括从合适的容器中将假装的物质倒在目标人物身上。两组在识别所涉及的假装物质、预测行为的假装结果或思考这些情节的假装性质方面的能力没有显著差异。然而，对照组在这后两项任务上的表现出奇地差，这限制了从观察到的理解能力上不存在组间差异中可能得出的结论。
