Core Studies Flashcards
Why was the aim of SAMUEL ANS BRYANTS study?
The aim was to challenge Piaget’s findings by altering the method used by Piaget showing that his methodology of asking the same question twice was flawed
What are the hypotheses of GRIFFITH’s study?
- No difference in skill between RG and NRG
- RG would produce more irrational verbalisation than NRG
- RG would believe they were more skill orientated that NRG
4 thinking aloud participants would take longer to finish the task
What are the strengths of GRIFFITHS?
Ecological validity because real arcade and real money
Controls because they used same fruit machine and same lapel microphone and transcribed it 24 hrs later
Application because realised making gamblers listen to their verbalisations made them embarrassed and more likely to stop
Qual and quant data so triangulation occurred
Explain Hans’ fear of horses.
When hans was almost 5, he began to be afraid of white horses with black around their mouths.
The black represents his fathers moustache and the blinkers his glasses. The phobia was actually a fear of his father.
Hans did say “daddy don’t trot away from me!”
What were the conditions in SAMUEL?
- One judgments task
Shown two substances, one was changed in front of them and then they were asked if they were the same - Standard two question
Child shown two objects and asked if they’re the same then one was changed and then asked again if they’re the same or not - Fixed array task
Children were shown two substances only free one of them had been transformed and then asked are they the same
What’s was the aim of FREUD’s study?
The aim of this study was to report the findings of the treatment of 5 year old called hans for his phobia of horses.
What were the results of SAMUELS study?
- the ability to conserve increases with age evaluate fewer errors were made by children aged 8 in all three tasks
Chasten can conserve better when they’re not asked the same question twice
Fixed array condition produced highest no. Of errors
The number task was much easier than mass or volume
The volume task was hardest of all
What is the phallic stage in FREUD’s study?
Phallic stage refers to the stage where a child starts having sexual desires for their opposite sex parent. This places him in conflict with his father who is not his rival. The boy fears castration if anyone finds out.
Outline 8 results of the GRIFFITHS study.
RG produced more irrational verbalisations 14% than NRG 2.5%
8 RG believed it was totally skill whereas 0 NRG believed it was totally skill
Playing times were similar for both
Both used more rational than irrational verbalisations
RGs stopped speaking out loud more often than NRGs
Rgs personified the fruit machines more
Rgs spent more time on the fruit machines than NRGS
What are the explanations of the findings of FREUD?
- Freud believed that the findings supported his theories of child development
The case study gave evidence for his theory of the Oedipus complex
This was through Hans phobia of horse which was actually a fear of his father because of his feelings for his mother, and also his jealousy of his sister and his fascination with his widdler
Freud said Hans was not abnormal but actually a very able child because he could talk about his feelings
What were SAMUEL AND BRYANTS conclusion?
Piaget’s conclusion may be partly at fault due to asking the same question twice rather than because they can’t conserve
As children’s age increases, so does their ability to conserve
The ability to conserve number develops earlier than conserve number
Piaget said children’s cognitive abilities develop with age and result agree because older children performed better
Piaget said that children in the preppie rational stage of cognitive development are unable to conserve however results showed that 5 year old children were able to conserve
What was the sample of SAMUEL AND BRYANTS study?
252 participants
Equal no. Of boys and girls
Aged between 5 and 8.5
From schools in Devon
Divided in to 4 age groups
63 participants in each age group
What were Piaget’s 4 stages of development?
- Sensory motor stage
Which is were the child gains understanding of its surrounding by using its senses - Pre-operation stage
Able to represent object or events by symbols or signs e.g. Language - Concrete operational stage
The child is decentred which means it is able to account for more than one factor in a situation - Formal operational stage
Mainly governed by formal logic and the most sophisticated stage of thinking
What was the aim of MILGRAMs study?
To investigate the process of obedience and to demonstrate the power of authority figure even when the demand involved destructive behaviour
What was the sample in MILGRAM
40 males Aged between 20-50 Range of background and occupations From new haven Volunteer sample from newspaper
No students
Experimenter was biology teacher
Victim was 47 yr old accountant known as Mr Wallace