case studies basic

Question 1

Blakemoore and Cooper

Answer 1

Kittens
horizontal + vertical lines
visual cortex development
thrust lines at them to see startle reflex

Question 2

baren Cohen

Answer 2

TOM -theory of mind
autism = Tourette’s
sally Anne doll test for TOM

Question 3

Bandura

Answer 3

Bobo dolls experiment
aggressive/non aggressive conditions
social learning theory

Question 4

Loftus and Palmer

Answer 4

Car crash
leading questions effect on eyewitness testimony
IV - adjectives used EX bumped vs smashed

Question 5

Pilivan

Answer 5

bystander effect
New York subway
drunk, different races, modelled helping behaviour

Question 6

Levine

Answer 6

Cross cultural altruism
helping behaviour across cultures
simpata communities
dropped pen, broken leg, blind `
pace of life

Question 7

Lee

Answer 7

lie telling
told children 4 stories, of good deed/bad deed
children had to rate how naughty the child in the story was

Question 8

Hancock

Answer 8

psychopaths
told them to explain their crime start to finish in detail
had a control of ‘non’ psychopaths
looked for language differences

Question 9

Bocciario

Answer 9

whistle blowing
told to write a encouraging statement to friends to take part in a (unethical) sensory deprivation experiment OR they could anonymously whistle blow

Question 10

Casey

Answer 10

Go, no-go tasks
hot and cold conditions-smiling/neutral facial expressions
identify certain genders
delay of gratification
longitudinal study

Question 11

Chaney

Answer 11

Funhaler
get children to be happier taking medication
whistle and spinning disc
inhalation was much better after funhaler

Question 12

Freud

Answer 12

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Question 13

Gould

Answer 13

Reviewing Yerkes scientific racism
Yerkes claimed ethnicities other than Americans/white had lower intelligence
claimed to study intelligence

Question 14

Grant

Answer 14

Study conditions
context dependant memory
quiet study place + quiet exam place = remember more?
some conditions studied with headphones etc

Question 15

Kolberg

Answer 15

Moral development in children
stage theory
6 stages
longitudinal study 10/16-22/28
presented with moral dilemmas and asked what to do
EX mercy kill fatally ill women

Question 16

Maguire

Answer 16

taxi drivers brain
larger posterior hippocampus etc
used an fMRI and counted grey matter

Question 17

Milgram

Answer 17

shock
obedience to an authority figure
45v-450v
prods-the experiment requires we continue
NOT AN EXPERIMENT

Question 18

Moray

Answer 18

cocktail party effect
-in one convo and hear your name in another
auditory attention
listening to shadowed prose and working out how much of the rejected message they heard

Question 19

Simons and Chabris

Answer 19

inattentional blindness
unexpected event
-umbrella condition, gorilla condition
opaque and transparent condition
black and white shirt condition
count number of passes per shirt colour and number of certain passes
then asked did you see the unexpected event

Question 20

sperry

Answer 20

splint brain
epilepsy- sever left and right hemisphere
-corpus collosum severed
left processes language
right speech + writing
one eye covered and look at tachistoscope
-0.1 seconds so no eye movement
-if presented to same hemisphere again they claim had already seen it, if other hemisphere they had not
tactile tests - hands covered left hand = right hemisphere etc
-right hand, left hemisphere could describe objects in speech or writing
-left hand, right hemisphere seemed unaware they were even holding something