How Psychological Understanding Has Developed Over Time

Question 1

Social psych arguments

Answer 1

• milgrams work on obedience done in the 1960’s and burger replicated this in 2009 and found similar results
• cohrs et al looked at issues like an authoritarian personality, predicting prejudice as did Adorno et al in 1950
• sherif et al and tajfel looking at realistic conflict and social identity theory at around the same time

Question 2

Cognitive psych arguments

Answer 2

• baddeleys did a lot of memory experiment in the 1960’s to test his ideas about memory. In 1974 baddeley and hitch developed the working memory model
• the working memory model extended understanding of STM just as tulvings examined LTM and split memory into episodic and semantic

Question 3

Learning theories arguments

Answer 3

• pavlovs work on classical conditioning and skinners focus on operant conditioning
• Olson et al used both classical and operant conditioning principles when applying the ideas to calves