Links to the Key Theme Flashcards
Loftus and Palmer - Memory
This shows that memory of an incident can be affected by the information received after the event- i.e. the wording of questions. This therefore links to the key theme of memory as it demonstrates how unreliable it can be.
Grant - memory
Link: This shows that memory of meaningful material can be affected my environmental cues encoded at the time information is learnt- context dependent memory.
Moray - attention
This shows that affective cues can penetrate an attentional block and this content is then processed.
Bocchario - responses to people in authority
Link back to key theme; This suggests that people are afraid to whistle blow or disobey authority, and therefore the majority will obey.
Piliavin - Responses to people in need
It shows that people will help one another when in need (no evidence of diffusion of responsibility) but people are more likely to help when an individual is ill rather than drunk.
Levine - Cross cultural altruism
The values of simpatia include a concern for the well being of others whilst the Individualistic values are more focused on the well being of ones self. Therefore the contrasting values are reflected peoples responses to those in need.
Bandura - External influences on childrens behaviours
Behaviour can be linked to factors beyond the individual, external influences.
Chaney - External influences on childrens behaviour
Therefore children’s behaviour, in this case adherence to medication, is linked to external influences such as positive reinforcement. This provides evidence for operant conditioning
Kohlberg - Moral Development
This suggests that moral development is affected by nature due to changes with age and also by nurture, due to differences in cultures.
Lee - Moral Development
Linked to moral development because at different ages were studied which shows how moral attitudes towards truth telling and lying telling develop, the Chinese children ratedlying in prosocial situations significantly more positivelythan the Canadian children and this was stronger the older the children were.
Freud - Understanding disorders
Freud’s study links to the key theme of understanding disorders as we can see that phobias are created during the phallic stage – Little Hans was scared of his dad and this manifested in his fear of the horse but as he stopped fantasying about his mum he stopped being afraid of his father
Baron-Cohen - Understanding disorders
This shows that HFA’s have trouble reading people’s emotions and it helpsus to understand the disorder of autism
Sperry - Regions of the brain
Sperry showed that the corpus callosum allows the exchange of information across the left hemisphere and these areas have some specialisation of function e.g. language is localised in the left hemisphere and creativity is localised in the right hemisphere
Casey - Regions of the brain
This demonstrates that regions of the brain play specific roles in determining whether you resist or give in to temptation.