Core Study Samples Flashcards
Dement & Kleitman (sleep & dreams)
Seven male and two female adults were used
Five of whom were studied in detail; the remaining four were used to confirm the results of the first five.
Hassett et al. (monkey toy preference)
A troop of 135 monkeys at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center Field Station. The troop included both infant (juvenile) and adult monkeys.
Of the remaining monkeys (61 females and 21 males), 34 interacted with the toys on more than five occasions (23 females and 11 males) and were included in the analysis.
Hölzel et al. (mindfulness & brain scans) MSBR Participants
MSBR Participants
- individuals enrolled in four MBSR courses held at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School;
- the courses included physician- and self-referred individuals from across New England who were seeking stress reduction;
- age range 25 to 55 years; mean age
38.0 years
- sample size, n = 16; (6 males, 10
females)
Hölzel et al. (mindfulness & brain scans) Control Group Participants
Control Group Participants
- n = 17; (11 males, 6 females)
mean age was 39.0 year
average education = 17.3 years
Andrade (doodling)
- 40 members of the general population; aged 18–55 years; paid a small sum for participation;
- 20 participants in each group, mainly females, with two males in the control group and three in the doodling group.
Baron-Cohen et al. (eyes test) Group 1
Group 1: 15 adult males with AS/HFA with a mean IQ score of 115 and mean age of 29.7 years, and self-selecting through adverts in the Autistic Society magazine; all were using the DSM or ICD criteria.
Baron-Cohen et al. (eyes test) Group 2
Group 2: Adult comparison group of 122 adults without diagnosis of AS/HFA; selected from adult community and education classes in Exeter and public library users in Cambridge with a mean age of 46.5 years.
Baron-Cohen et al. (eyes test) Group 3
Group 3: Student comparison group of 103 Cambridge University students without diagnosis of AS/HFA; a mean age of 20.8 years.
Baron-Cohen et al. (eyes test) Group 4
Group 4: IQ Matched group of 14 with a mean age of 28 years and mean IQ score of 116. These participants were randomly selected from the general population.
Pozzulo et al. (line-ups) Children
- a total of 59 children
age range 4-7 years old (mean age of 4.98)
21 females and 38 Males
Pre-k/kindergarten from 3 separate private schools in Eastern Ontario
Pozzulo et al. (line-ups) Adults
- a total of 53 adults
age range from 17-30 years old ((Mean age of 20.54)
36 females and 17 males
from Eastern Ontario University
recruited from an introductory psychology participant pool
Bandura et al. (aggression)
- Seventy-two (72) children
aged three to six years (36 boys and 36 girls)
obtained from Stanford University nursery school.
Saavedra and Silverman (button phobia)
- a 9-year-old Hispanic American boy who with his mother, sought support from the Child Anxiety and Phobia Program at Florida International University, Miami.
- The participant met the criteria for having a specific phobia of buttons and had been experiencing symptoms for around four years prior to the start of the study.
- The participant did not meet the criteria for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Milgram (obedience)
- 40 men between the ages of 20 and 50 years old recruited through newspaper advertisement in the New Haven, CT. (volunteer sampling)
- Men were unskilled workers (blue collar), white collar workers, as well as professionals.
- Each participant was promised $4.50 for taking part (not conditional on their completing the study).
Perry et al. (personal space)
- 54 male undergraduates from the university of Haifa
- aged 19 to 32 years: mean age of 25.29,
- participated in this experiment for coarse credit or payment.
- all participants had normal vision and no history of psychiatric or neurological disorders.
- 5 participants were left-handed.
Piliavin et al. (subway Samaritanism)
- passengers travelling on an underground subway between Harlem and the Bronx weekdays between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
- about 4450 people:
- 45% were black and 55% were white.
[The mean number of passengers per subway car was 43, and
the mean number of people in the critical area (where the incident took place) was 8.5]
Fegan et al. (elephant learning)
- five female elephants: 4 juveniles and one adult, all housed at the same elephant stable in Nepal.
- the juveniles were between five and seven years old and had been born at the stable.
- the adult elephant was estimated to have been in her 50s.
- the elephants were all traditionally trained and in free contact with their mahouts. None of the elephants had previous experience of SPR.
