The need to accurately assess social performance in clinical populations is a priority. One of them is the Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT). The TASIT is composed of three sections with different forms for individual retesting.
The Emotion Evaluation Test, the first part of the TAST, gauges the individual’s ability to distinguish six basic emotions; happiness, anger, fear, sadness, disgust, and surprise. A short video is presented to the test taker and must be able to recognize the actors, who are professionals, expression.
The second part is the Social Inference - Minimal. This section assesses if whether the viewer can form judgments about conversational remarks. This time, in the videoed vignettes, the actors portray friendly everyday sarcasm and sincerity. This is to determine if the client can distinguish remarks that are meant to implicate in the non-literal sense. “Hope you have a great day” in the context to imply the opposite, sarcasm. The viewer is then given questions to answer about more specific things such as emotions, thoughts, tone, facial expressions, gestures, and intentions of the actors in the video …show more content…
There are theories that claim primary research on social cognition essentially inaccurate. The common claim against primary research on social cognition assessment is the neglect of social interaction. Many arguments such as Gallagher’s (2001) proposal, for what he titled “interaction theory” challenges the Theory of Mind and the Simulation Theory, which both of these are components of a broader approach called the Mindreading debate. Before going in depth, The Simulation theory and Interaction theory will be briefly explained. Consider the following example of for the three theories