Core Study Aims Flashcards
Dement & Kleitman (sleep & dreams)
To explore whether there is there a positive correlation between subjective estimates of dream
duration and REM length.
To investigate whether eye movement related to dream content.
Hassett et al. (monkey toy preference)
To test if sex differences in children’s toy preferences result from biological factors, for example, from prenatal hormone exposure rather than through socialization.
Hassett et al. (monkey toy preference)
To investigate if male and female rhesus monkeys have similar toy preferences to human infants, despite no socialization experience with human toys.
Hölzel et al. (mindfulness & brain scans)
To identify changes in specific brain regions, and changes in the whole brain, by comparing gray matter concentration before and after a mindfulness course.
Andrade (doodling)
To investigate whether doodling assists information processing, perhaps by enabling people to attend more effectively or by enhancing their memory.
Baron-Cohen et al. (eyes test)
To test whether a group of adults with Asperger Syndrome (AS) or High-functioning Autism (HFA) would be impaired on the revised version of the ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ task.
Baron-Cohen et al. (eyes test)
To test if there was an association between performance on the revised ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ task and measures of autistic traits,
Baron-Cohen et al. (eyes test)
To investigate if there were sex differences in those without autism on the ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ task.
Pozzulo et al. (line-ups)
To assess whether children’s false positive responding with target-absent lineups is driven by social factors to a greater degree than cognitive factors.
Pozzulo et al. (line-ups)
To investigate whether the pattern in correct identification and false positive responding would remain when manipulating the familiarity of the target.
Bandura et al. (aggression)
To investigate whether a child would learn aggression by observing a model and would reproduce this behavior in the absence of the model, and whether the sex of the role model was important.
Fegan et al. (elephant learning)
To see whether free contact, traditionally trained elephants can be trained to participate in a trunk wash by using positive reinforcement.
Saavedra and Silverman (button phobia)
To examine the role of classical conditioning in relation to fear and avoidance of a particular stimulus.
To see if using a type of exposure therapy could reduce the disgust and distress associated with buttons in a specific phobia.
Milgram (obedience)
To investigate how obedient individuals would be to orders received from a person in authority.
To investigate whether people would be obedient to authority even when it would result in physical harm to another person.
Perry et al. (personal space)
To test the differential effect of the social hormone Oxytocin on personal space preference in relation to a person’s empathy ability.
Piliavin et al. (subway Samaritanism)
To study bystander behavior in a natural setting.
To investigate the effect of four situational variables on helping behavior or ‘Good Samaritanism’.
