Core Studies - Possible Applications

Question 1

Cognitive Area studies and possible applications

Answer 1

• Loftus & Palmer - Police interrogations, questions in court
• Grant - Students studying for exams
• Moray - Helps us understand how we can block out unwanted auditory information
• Simons & Chabris - Shows us how witnesses can miss events occurring in front of them

Question 2

Developmental Area studies and possible applications

Answer 2

• Bandura - Parents reducing their children’s exposure to aggression
  Chaney - Medical adherence
• Lee - Helps us understand why certain cultures act how they do

Question 3

Social Area studies and possible applications

Answer 3

• Milgram - Preventing blind obedience in the army
• Bocchario - Stop people being pressured into consenting for wrong things
• Piliavin - Children could be educated to help others regardless of the condition of they are in
• Levine - Travellers know which countries are most helpful

Question 4

Biological Area studies and possible applications

Answer 4

• Sperry - Rehabilitation of brain damaged patients
• Casey - Create strategies to train brains in low delayers to prevents problems in later life
• Blakemore & Cooper - Perceptual disorders can be detected in children and can be corrected early
• Maguire - Rehabilitation for people with brain damage

Question 5

Individual Differences Area studies and possible applications

Answer 5

• Freud - Therapy to help resolve phobias
• Baron-Cohen - Diagnosing individuals
• Gould - Used to develop more IQ tests for intelligence
• Hancock - Diagnosing psychopaths