Aims Flashcards
Piliavin aim.
To investigate whether four variables would effects the helping behaviour of people on trains in the New York Subway. 1. Race of victim. 2. Responsibility of victim. 3. Number of bystanders present. 4. Presence of a model helper.
Milgram aim.
To investigate the level of obedience demonstrated by participants who were told by an authority figure to administer electric shocks to another person.
Baron Cohen.
To investigate if high functioning adults with autism or Asperger syndrome would struggle with new and more difficult theory of mind tests.
Sue Savage Rumbaugh.
To compare the language acquisition of 2 Pygmy chimps (Kanzi and Mulika) with 2 common chimps (Austin and Sherman).
Loftus and Palmer. General Aim.
To investigate the effect of leading questions on participants memory of an event.
Loftus and Palmer. Experiment 1.
To investigate whether changing the verb in the critical question about the speed of 2 cars in a collision would effect the speed estimated by participants.
Loftus and Palmer. Experiment 2.
To investigate whether if changing the verb in a question about the speed of cars in a collision would influence whether participants recalled seeing broken glass in a multiple car accident film clip.
Bandura Ross and Ross.
To investigate whether if a child is a passive witness to a display of aggression by an adult role model in one setting, would they repeat these aggressive behaviours in another setting, even if the adult role model was not present.
Freud.
To use the case of a boy with a phobia of horses and other symptoms to prove the existence of the Oedipus Complex.
Milgram.
To investigate the levels of obedience participants will demonstrate when told by an authority figure to administer electric shock to another person.
Samuel and Bryant.
To investigate whether children can conserve at an earlier stage than predicted by Piaget. That is, the results people usually get when they carry out one of Piaget’s tests are due to the structure of the test rather than child’s ability to think.
Piliavin.
To investigate whether helping behaviour is affected by 4 variables:
- Responsibility of victim.
- Race of victim.
- Number of bystanders present.
- Presence of a model helper.
Reicher and Haslam.
To investigate the relations of 2 groups of unequal power develop in a simulated prison environment with the purpose of testing 2 hypotheses.
- Members of the dominant group identify with their group immediately.
- Members of the subordinate group only identify with their group once the groups become impermeable.
Sperry.
To investigate the psychological effects of hemispheric disconnection in split-brain patients, and use the results to understand how the right and left hemispheres work in normal individuals.
Rosenhan.
- To see if sane individuals who presented themselves to psychiatric hospitals would be diagnosed as insane.
- To illustrate the poor reliability and validity of the diagnostic classification system for diagnosing mental disorder at the time.
- To show the consequences and treatment of being diagnosed as mentally ill.
