General Studies Questions (all 20 studies) Flashcards
What are all of the studies in the Social area
Milgram
Bocchiaro
Piliavin
Levine et al
What are all of the studies in the Cognitive area
Loftus and Palmer
Grant et al
Moray
Simons and Chabris
What are all the studies in the Developmental area
Bandura
Chaney
Kohlberg
Lee et al
What are all the studies in the Biological area
Sperry
Casey
Blakemore and Cooper
Maguire
What are all the studies in the individual differences area
Freud
Baron-Cohen
Gould
Hancock
Use one sentence to describe the Milgram experiment
-Social study, used to study obedience to authority when shocking other people
Use one sentence to describe the Bocchiaro experiment
-Social study, used to study obedience to authority when doing an unethical act
Use one sentence to describe the Piliavin experiment
-Social study, used to study people on a subway and how they reacted to people in need
Use one sentence to describe the Levine experiment
-Social study, used across many countries to see how they would react to people in need around the world
Use one sentence to describe the Loftus and Palmer experiment
-Cognitive study, used to show how leading questions can change people schemas using car crash videos
Use one sentence to describe the Grant experiment
-Cognitive study, using context dependent memory to test silent and noisy conditions
Use one sentence to describe the Moray experiment
-Cognitive study, using auditory attention to test how people use dichotic listening to listen to two simultaneous audios in each ear
Use one sentence to describe the Simons and Chabris experiment
-Cognitive study, using visual attention to test people inattentional blindness to situations such as the gorilla and umbrella
Use one sentence to describe the Bandura experiment
-Developmental study, using a bobo doll to see if children would imitate a model when being aggressive
Use one sentence to describe the Chaney experiment
-Developmental study, using funhalers to se if children would take their medication through positive reinforcement
Use one sentence to describe the Kohlberg experiment
-Developmental study, using the levels of moral development to show how young peoples morals develop over time
Use one sentence to describe the Lee experiment
-Developmental study, using different cultures to find out their evaluations of lying and truth telling
Use one sentence to describe the Sperry experiment
-Biological study, using epileptic patients who have had a comisurotomy (split-brain) to show how the two sides of the brain work together
Use one sentence to describe the Casey experiment
-Biological study, using delay of gratification to study peoples ventral striatum and inferior gyrus (marshmallow)
Use one sentence to describe the Blakemore and Cooper experiment
-Biological study, using kittens to study the visual cortex in the early years of development and brain plasticity
Use one sentence to describe the Maguire experiment
-Biological study, using taxi drivers to investigate the brain plasticity of the hippocampus
Use one sentence to describe the Freud experiment
-Individual differences study, using Little Hans to understand the psychosexual stages and how we develop through them
Use one sentence to describe the Baron-Cohen experiment
-Individual differences study, using autistic adults they studied the theory of mind using the eye task, strange stories, basic emotion and the gender task
Use one sentence to describe the Gould experiment
An individual differences study, that analyses Yerks interpretation of the IQ testing and his view that America are a nation of ‘morons’
