Core Studies - Results Flashcards
Milgram results
65% of participants delivered a 450V shock
Mean prediction by students that 1.2% deliver a shock
3 participants had seizures
Bocchiaro results
Students predicted that other students would whistleblow less than themself
But still predicted a fairly large amount of participants will whistleblow
9.4% of participants whistleblow compared to
76.5% of participants who said they would obey
Piliavin results
81/103 trials received spontaneous help
Tendency for same race to help
90% of helpers were male
Not enough data collected on effect of model helper
Levine results
Río de Janeiro, Brazil had highest help =93.33%
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia had lowest help = 40.33%
Where people earn less, is correlated with more help offered
Bandura results
Boys who saw aggressive male model displayed mean number of 25.8 aggression
compared to girls who saw aggressive male model displayed mean number of 7.2 aggression
Chaney results
48% of children screamed when normal inhaler bought to face compared to 3% who screamed when funhaler bought to face
59% used inhaler day before compared to 81% who used funhaler day before
Kohlberg results
Provided evidence that the stages of moral development and progression was universal across cultures
And invariant so you cannot skip a stage
Lee results
Chinese children had mean rating of +0.98 in favour for lying after a pro social act (increased with age) whereas Canadian children rated it -1.00
Chinese proverb ‘one should not leave their name after a good act’
Gender had no significant effect
Moray results
Exp 1 = 4.9/7 words recalled from shadowed passage in survey
1.9/7 words recalled from rejected passage
Simon and Chabris results
Over all 16 conditions:
54% of participants noticed the unexpected event
46% participants failed to notice the unexpected event
Loftus and Palmer results
16/50 Ps saw broken glass in smashed condition
7/50 Ps saw broken glass in hit condition
Grant results
Mean Recognition test scores for both matching conditions =14.3/16
Mean recognition test scores for both MIS matching conditions = 12.7/16
Freud results
Claimed to find evidence for psychosexual stages of development, little Hans was scared of horses
Which provides evidence for the unconscious hatred of his dad (Oedipus complex)
And so phobias are a result of the unconscious
Baron-Cohen results
Mean Correct score on eyes task out of 15:
16.3/25 for autistic group
20.3/25 for non autistic group
Gould results
Mental age of white Americans =13
Mental age of black Americans = 10.41
Hancock results
Psychopaths used significantly more subordinating conjunctions (1.82%) compared to non psychopaths (1.54%) of words in their interview
Psychopaths produced 33% more disfluencies than non psychopaths
Sperry results
Present a key to right visual field and apple to left:
Participant can use left hand to draw apple but say they see a key
So both hemisphere cannot communicate but serve different functions
Casey results
Low delayers had more activity in ventral striatum than high delayers when shown a rewarding stimuli and less activity in inferior frontal gyrus than high delayers
Blakemore and cooper results
Orientation of neurones lined themself to favour direction of stripes the kitten was raised in, inside the cylinder
Kitten showed no visual spacing, would not place paws out when bought to a surface to land
Maguire results
Taxi drivers had significantly larger volumes of grey matter in posterior hippocampus compared to in non taxi drivers’s posterior hippocampus
Pos correlation between time spent as taxi driver and posterior hippocampus grey matter volume
