General Studies Questions (all 20 studies)

Question 1

What are all of the studies in the Social area

Answer 1

Milgram
Bocchiaro
Piliavin
Levine et al

Question 2

What are all of the studies in the Cognitive area

Answer 2

Loftus and Palmer
Grant et al
Moray
Simons and Chabris

Question 3

What are all the studies in the Developmental area

Answer 3

Bandura
Chaney
Kohlberg
Lee et al

Question 4

What are all the studies in the Biological area

Answer 4

Sperry
Casey
Blakemore and Cooper
Maguire

Question 5

What are all the studies in the individual differences area

Answer 5

Freud
Baron-Cohen
Gould
Hancock

Question 6

Use one sentence to describe the Milgram experiment

Answer 6

-Social study, used to study obedience to authority when shocking other people

Question 7

Use one sentence to describe the Bocchiaro experiment

Answer 7

-Social study, used to study obedience to authority when doing an unethical act

Question 8

Use one sentence to describe the Piliavin experiment

Answer 8

-Social study, used to study people on a subway and how they reacted to people in need

Question 9

Use one sentence to describe the Levine experiment

Answer 9

-Social study, used across many countries to see how they would react to people in need around the world

Question 10

Use one sentence to describe the Loftus and Palmer experiment

Answer 10

-Cognitive study, used to show how leading questions can change people schemas using car crash videos

Question 11

Use one sentence to describe the Grant experiment

Answer 11

-Cognitive study, using context dependent memory to test silent and noisy conditions

Question 12

Use one sentence to describe the Moray experiment

Answer 12

-Cognitive study, using auditory attention to test how people use dichotic listening to listen to two simultaneous audios in each ear

Question 13

Use one sentence to describe the Simons and Chabris experiment

Answer 13

-Cognitive study, using visual attention to test people inattentional blindness to situations such as the gorilla and umbrella

Question 14

Use one sentence to describe the Bandura experiment

Answer 14

-Developmental study, using a bobo doll to see if children would imitate a model when being aggressive

Question 15

Use one sentence to describe the Chaney experiment

Answer 15

-Developmental study, using funhalers to se if children would take their medication through positive reinforcement

Question 16

Use one sentence to describe the Kohlberg experiment

Answer 16

-Developmental study, using the levels of moral development to show how young peoples morals develop over time

Question 17

Use one sentence to describe the Lee experiment

Answer 17

-Developmental study, using different cultures to find out their evaluations of lying and truth telling

Question 18

Use one sentence to describe the Sperry experiment

Answer 18

-Biological study, using epileptic patients who have had a comisurotomy (split-brain) to show how the two sides of the brain work together

Question 19

Use one sentence to describe the Casey experiment

Answer 19

-Biological study, using delay of gratification to study peoples ventral striatum and inferior gyrus (marshmallow)

Question 20

Use one sentence to describe the Blakemore and Cooper experiment

Answer 20

-Biological study, using kittens to study the visual cortex in the early years of development and brain plasticity

Question 21

Use one sentence to describe the Maguire experiment

Answer 21

-Biological study, using taxi drivers to investigate the brain plasticity of the hippocampus

Question 22

Use one sentence to describe the Freud experiment

Answer 22

-Individual differences study, using Little Hans to understand the psychosexual stages and how we develop through them

Question 23

Use one sentence to describe the Baron-Cohen experiment

Answer 23

-Individual differences study, using autistic adults they studied the theory of mind using the eye task, strange stories, basic emotion and the gender task

Question 24

Use one sentence to describe the Gould experiment

Answer 24

An individual differences study, that analyses Yerks interpretation of the IQ testing and his view that America are a nation of ‘morons’

Question 25

Use one sentence to describe the Hancock experiment

Answer 25

An individual differences study, that analyses the use of language in psychopaths using semi-structured interviews