Paper 1 Key Terms And Studies Flashcards
MIlgram (obedience)
40 male ppts in Yale Uni -100%-300V -65%- 450V The naïve ppt was always the teacher, gave the learner an electric shock every time they made an error. Repeated with a number of variables -Proximity (65% ---> 20%) -Location (65% ---> 50%) -Uniformity (65% ---> 20%)
Asch (conformity)
123 male ppts in Swarthmore collage - 74%- once - 32%- all a line judgement task (believed to be a vision test) 12 critical trials. Had variations - Group size (32%) - Task difficulty - Unanimity (32% ---> 5%)
Zimbardo (conformity)
24 male ppts, Stanford Uni. The experiment lasted 6 of 14 days.
ppts were randomly assigned the role of guard or prisoner. Found they quickly conformed with their roles. ETHICAL ISSUES!
Loftus and Palmer (EWT)
Leading questions effect on EWT. Replaced the verb eg samshed (40.8mph), hit (34mph).
32% reported seeing smashed glass when there was none.
Yullie and Cutshall (positive anxiety)
21 ppts in a real life shooting, 5 months later EWT was the same with only minor details ie, age and height changing
concluded that anxiety had no effect on memory, refutes weapon focus effect.
Johnson and Scott (negative anxiety)
Affect of anxiety on EWT and facial recognition.
1) NO WEAPON- man with pen and greasy hands (50%)
2) WEAPON- heard argument, saw man with a bloody letter opener (30%)
Gabbert et al (EWT)
Watched a video of a girl stealing. Pair was told they had watched the same video (they had not)
71% recalled info they had not seen.
60% said girl was stealing despite not seeing the crime.
Geiselman et al (cognitive interview)
1) Report everything
2) Context reinstatement
3) Recall from a changed perspective
4) Recall in reverse order
Baddley and Hitch (Retroactive)
New info (ie team names) interfered with old info Sample of rugby players found players who played more forgot more.
Keppel and Underwood (Proactive)
Old info interfered with new info
3 letter trigrams with counting backwards in 3’s to avoid rehearsal. Remembered the first trigrams better.
Godden and Baddley (context-dependent)
18 ppts learnt words, found that those learnt and recited in the same place were remembered better.
eg- both on land or both underwater.
Carter and Cassiday (state dependent)
Found that when cues that are present at the time of encoding and missed during retrieval state dependent forgetting is likely to occur
(experiment 5 words just as easy as 5 letters with anti-histamines)
George Miller (Capacity)
Believed STM = 7+/- 2
So we can remember 5 words just as easy as 5 letters.
Alan Baddley (coding)
4 word lists
- acoustically similar
- acoustically dissimilar
- semantically similar
- semantically dissimilar
Identified 2 memory stores. STM= acoustic and LTM= semantic
Oliner and Oliner
Internal locus- people feel that they have control over their life events. Tend to be more confident and conform less.
Interviewed 406 people who protected Jews in Nazi Germany, and 126 who didn’t. Found that the rescuers had an internal locus.
Milgram (External locus)
External locus- People feel that fate and luck control their lives. more likely to conform
It was concluded that in Milgrams study, people who didn’t have an external locus were less likely to go to 400V.
Minority Influence (Consistency)
Over time consistency in the view of the minority increases interest from other people.
- Synchronic
- Diachronic
Minority Influence (Commitment)
Extreme activities that cause risk demonstrated commitment.
This increases the amount of interest from the majority group (augmentation principle) seen in suffragettes.
Moscovici
Minority Influence (Flexibility)
Being constant alone is not enough. Minority should balance all 3 to not appear rigid.
Meltzoff and Moore- 1977 (Attachment)
An adult made 1 of 3 faces or hand gestures, the child’s reaction was filmed.
Found that there was an association and interactional synchrony is innate, not leanrt
Maccoby- 1980 (Attachment)
Found 4 characteristics of attachment
1) Seeking proximity
2) Distress on separation
3) Joy on reunion
4) Orientation behaviour
Shaffer and Emmerson- 1964 (Attachment)
60 babies from working class Glasgow, observed stranger and separation anxiety.
- asocial
- indecriminate
- specific/discriminate
- multiple
Suggests that attachment develops in stages over the first year.