Aims Flashcards
LOFTUS AND PALMER
To investigate how information supplied after an event influences a witness’ memory for that event
BARON-COHEN
To investigate if high functioning adults with autism or asperger’s syndrome would be impaired on the theory of mind task; Reading the mind in the eyes
SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH
To study the human language capabilities in two pygmy chimpanzees (Kanzi and Malika) compared to two common chimpanzees (Sherman and Austin)
SAMUEL AND BRYANT
To challenge Piaget’s findings by altering the method used by Piaget on the conservation task
BANDURA
To demonstrate that if children were passive witnesses to an aggressive model they would imitate this aggressive behaviour when given the opportunity.
FREUD
To report the findings of treatment of a 5 year old boy for his phobia of horses
ROSENHAN
To test the hypothesis that psychiatrists cannot reliably tell the difference between people who are sane and those who are insane.
THIGPEN AND CLECKLEY
To provide an account of the psychotherapeutic treatment of a 25-year-old woman who was referred to Thigpen and Cleckley due to ‘severe and blinding headaches’
GRIFFITHS
To investigate cognitive bias involved in gambling behaviour
MAGUIRE
To investigate whether changes in could be detected in the brains of London taxi drivers and to investigate the functions of the hippocampus in spatial memory
DEMENT AND KLEITMAN
To investigate the relationship between eye movements and dreaming.
SPERRY
to investigate the effects of hemisphere deconnection and to show that each hemisphere has different functions
REICHER AND HASLAM
To attempt to create an institution to investigate the behaviour of groups that were unequal in terms of power, status, and resources.
MILGRAM
To investigate what level of obedience would be shown when participants were told by an authority figure to administer electric shocks to another person..
PILIAVIN
To investigate factors affecting helping behaviour, e.g. the type of victim (drunk or ill), the race of the victim (black or white)
