Psychology Year 1 Evidence

Question 1

Sherif

Answer 1

In and out group biased formed in competition and can be reduced with superordinate tasks

Question 2

Milgrim

Answer 2

People will follow order they may disagree with because they are told to by authority

Question 3

Zimbardo

Answer 3

People will commit acts they would not normally do when they are placed in a role of power

Question 4

Milgrim variations

Answer 4

The perceived legitimacy of the authority, proximity if it and number of people being ordered change obedience levels

Question 5

Hoffing

Answer 5

Nurses obey a doctor telling them to give a lethal amount of medication

Question 6

Carol and Ember

Answer 6

Tribal conflict increased during times of competition such as natural disasters and drought

Question 7

Tajfel and Turner

Answer 7

People have such a strong out group bias they will hurt their own side to cause more damage to the other group

Question 8

Darling

Answer 8

Spacial and visual memory can be interrupted separately with difference interference tasks

Question 9

Sebastian and Hernandez Gil

Answer 9

There is a clear development of the phonological look which is tied to subvocalisation

Question 10

Bartlett

Answer 10

People will reconstruct their recollection of their events such as transformation or reorganisation of the timeline to fit their schemas

Question 11

Ostergaard

Answer 11

10 year old boy with brain damage had his intelligence intact but both episodic and semantic memory damaged

Question 12

Philips

Answer 12

There is an association between spacial memory and language acquisition

Question 13

Godden and Baddley

Answer 13

When learnt underwater, scuba divers had twice the success in recalling whilst underwater

Question 14

H.M

Answer 14

He was able to create short term memories but had severe impairment of long term memory

Question 15

Whitman

Answer 15

A tumour on his amygdala caused him to have a violent crime spree

Question 16

Van De Over

Answer 16

Relapse in drug seeking behaviour caused changes to the synaptic neurones (endocytosis)

Question 17

Daly and Wilson

Answer 17

The majority of murders are committed by single male against single males

Question 18

Gottesman and Shields

Answer 18

Mz twins have higher concordance rates with schizophrenia than Dz twins

Question 19

Raine

Answer 19

People who have killed and pleaded NGRI had different brain functions e.g. lower function in the PFC and Corpus Callosum

Question 20

Phineas Gage

Answer 20

Damage to his PFC cause significant change to his personality and aggression level

Question 21

Mazar

Answer 21

There is an increase in inter male fighting in puberty

Question 22

Pavlov

Answer 22

Animals can be made to have an unconditioned response to a neutral stimuli

Question 23

Watson and Rayner

Answer 23

Phobic responses can be conditioned through classical conditioning

Question 24

Skinner

Answer 24

Punishment and rewards can increase or decrease the likelihood of a certain behaviour being exhibited in rats

Question 25

Bandura

Answer 25

Children will imitate an aggressive role model especially one of the same sex

Question 26

McGrath

Answer 26

75% of people with phobias respond well to therapy

Question 27

Thorndike

Answer 27

Law of effect can increase the likelihood of an exhibited behaviour being repeated

Question 28

Capfons

Answer 28

Systematic desensitisation helped people with a phobia of flying

Question 29

De Hogeweyk

Answer 29

Village that is specially designed to recreate real life and help dementia suffers

Question 30

Mount St Vincent

Answer 30

Dementia patients play with children and it improves lucidity

Question 31

Benazzouzs

Answer 31

Monkeys that had Parkinson’s induced on them helped cure the first person of Parkinson’s

Question 32

Ferrari et al

Answer 32

Rats were less aggressive to outsiders when castrated but this cannot be generalised as humans would work out behaviour