Core Studies

Question 1

Loftus and Palmer’s sample

Answer 1

Experiment 1
45 students
Uni of Washington
Both genders

Experiment 2
150 students
Uni of Washington
Both genders

Question 2

Grant’s sample

Answer 2

39 participants
17-56 years old
17 females
22 males

Snowball sampling

Question 3

Moray’s sample

Answer 3

Experiment 1
Undergraduates
No number
Both genders

Experiment 2
12 participants
Undergraduates
Both genders

Experiment 3
2 groups of 14 participants
Students
Both genders

Question 4

Simons and Chabris’ sample

Answer 4

Gathered data from 228 consenting volunteers, mostly students
Only 192 were used

Question 5

Milgram’s sample

Answer 5

40 men 
New Haven 
20-50 years old
Range of backgrounds 
Paid $4.50

Question 6

Bocchiaro’s sample

Answer 6

149 undergraduates 
96 females
53 males
Either €7 or course credit 
VU uni in Amsterdam

Question 7

Piliavin’s sample

Answer 7

4450 unsolicited participants in the carriage

New York subway

Question 8

Levine’s sample

Answer 8

23 countries

Question 9

Bandura’s sample

Answer 9

72 children
36 boys and girls
3-5 years
Nursery at Stanford uni

Question 10

Chaney’s sample

Answer 10

32 children 
22 males
10 females 
1 1/2 - 6 years 
Australia

Question 11

Kohlberg’s sample

Answer 11

75 American boys
10-16 years at the beginning
Followed them every 3 years for 12 years until they were 22-28
From Malaysia, Taiwan, Canada, Mexico, UK, Turkey

Question 12

Lee’s sample

Answer 12

China 
120 
40, 7 year olds
40, 9 year olds
40, 11 year olds 
Hangzhou

Canada
108
36, 7 year olds 
40, 9 year olds 
32, 11 year olds 
New Brunswick

Question 13

Sperry’s sample

Answer 13

11 split brain patients

Question 14

Casey’s sample

Answer 14

Started with 562, 4 year olds

Experiment 1
59 participants

Experiment 2
27 one excluded so 26

Question 15

Blakemore and cooper’s study

Answer 15

Kittens from birth to 1 year old

Question 16

Maguire’s sample

Answer 16

Taxi drivers
16 right-handed males
London taxi drivers

Non-taxi drivers
50 right-handed males
16 were selected who were aged matched

Question 17

Freud’s sample

Answer 17

Little hans
She’s between 3-5
Austria

Question 18

Baron-Cohen’s sample

Answer 18

Group 1
16

Group 2
50

Group 3
10

Question 19

Gould/Yerkes’ sample

Answer 19

Over 1 million

1.75 million

Question 20

Hancock’s sample

Answer 20

Psychopaths
16
Mean age 39.71

Non-psychopaths
38
Mean age 39.91

Question 21

Loftus and Palmer procedure

Experiment 1

Answer 21

7 clips car accidents
5-30secs
4/7 were staged
Questionnaire 
Critical question 
‘About how fast were the cars going when they **** into each other?’ 
Estimate mph
Took 1 1/2 hours 
Smashed collided bumped hit contacted

Question 22

Loftus and Palmer

Experiment 2

Answer 22

1 min clip of multiple car accidents 
4 secs each
Critical question 
3 conditions 
Hit, smashed, not asked about speed
1 week sent home 
Then asked the question
‘Did yo see any broken glass?’