自闭症幼儿的情感认知特点的实验研究

本实验采用3(组别)×4(基本情绪)×3(实验材料)×2(实验条件)的混合设计的方法对平均心理年龄24个月的6名自闭症幼儿和心理年龄与之相近的6名正常儿童和6名弱智儿童的情感认知特点进行了比较性的研究。实验结果表明:在“语言提示”条件下,自闭症幼儿的正答率远远低于正常儿童和弱智儿童,但在“表情提示”条件下,自闭症幼儿与弱智幼儿几乎没差距,在对“愤怒”和“惊恐”等情绪的认知中,正答率高于弱智幼儿。这意味着自闭症幼儿可能运用了其他的替代策略进行情感认知。

An Experimental Study of the Characteristics of Emotion Cognition in Autistic Children

The experiment compared the abilities and characteristics of emotion cognition of young children (6 autistic ,6 mentally retarded and 6 normal) by the mixed design of 3X4x3x2. The results of the experiment: Under the condition of "language prompting", the rate of right answer of the autistic children were lower than that of the retarded and normal young children;under the condition of "facial expression prompting", the rate of right answer of autistic children were equal to that of the retarded and normal young children. In face of the emotion-concerning " anger" and "fear", the rate of right answer of the autistic children were higher than that of the mentally retarded children, which meant the autistic children might use other strategy to do emotion cognition.