All about Experiments in Psychology Flashcards
What is the Little Albert Experiment
Made in 1920
Scientist John Waston
1. Used Baby for Experiment for understand nature of fear
2. For months, baby plays with white fluffy things with no fear
3. Scientist later scares baby by making loud noise while playing white fluffy thing
4. Baby is now scared of white fluffy things
5. Didn’t desenstize baby
What is Landris Facial Expression Experiment
Made in 1924
Scientist Carney Landris
1. Draw black lines on people for exxagraaeted facial expression
2. Purpose fo Experiment is to see if emotion is related to facial expression and if certain emotins r more common
3. They made them behead rats. Only 1/3 did
4. The 2/3 had the rats beheaded for them
5. Pointless bcuz no correlation between facial expression and emotion
What is the Monster Study
Made in 1939
Scientist Wendall Johnson
1. Conducted speech experiment on orphaned children
2. Seperated them in two groups
3. Purpose of experiment is language development
4. Gave Children Psycholgical Trauam and Speech problems later
5. One group beltited them and told them they have speech problems
What is Learned Helplessness
Made in 1965
Scientist Mark Seligman + Steven Maier
1. 3 dogs were tied together.
2. They became helpless because they can’t stop it
3. They were offered a chance to escape but they wouln’t because they were helpless
4. Dogs suffered clincial depression
5. Set #1 were freed later. Set #2 had one dog shocked but could be stoped with lever. Set #3 has both dogs getting shocked randomly without a way to stop it
What is Monkey Drug Trials
Made in 1969
Scientist C.R Schuster and T. Thompson
1. Purpose of experiment is to see mentla effects of drug use
2. Trained monkies to inject drugs and alcohol into their blood stream
3. Monkies died
4. Monkies broke figners bcuz of hallucations and broke arms trying to escape
5. Scientist who did this got promoted
What is Standford Prison Experiment
Made in 1971
Scientist Philip Zimbardo
1. Prupose of experiment is to see mental effects prison had on prisoners
2. Did a prison simulation with college students splting to prisoner and guards
3. Guards became cruel and abusive
4. Turned Prisoners aagienst each other
5. Expeirment ended early because of mental effects
What is Surrogate Mother
Made in 1971
Scientist Harry Harlow
1. Purpose of experiment is to see effects on social siolation
2. Took babies away from mothers and put them in metal cages
3. Cages had two fake moms that rpoduced milk. One was wries and other was covered in cloth
4. Learned that feeding wasn’t related to social isolation
5. Monkies came out crazy and people doubted the importnace of experiment
What is Milgrim’s Study
Made in 1974
Scientist Stalney Milgrim
1. Purpose is to see if teachers would hurt students if asked by authority figure
2. There’s volutneer students and teachers
3. Teachers will increasily shock sutdents the more questions they get wrong
4. 68% of teachers shcoked studnets with 450 volts and more
5. This can cause death and serious injury
