Semester 1 exam revision Flashcards
case study aim and samples
Levine
aim: to investigate the effects fo in-group bias on helping
sample: 45 male lancester university students that are self indentified manchester united fans
SIT
Drury
aim: to investigate the impact of social categorisation on a person’s behaviour and decisions to help others in danger
sample: 40 univsersity of sussex students
SIT
Bandura
aim: to investigate whether children imitate aggression modeled by an adult
sample: 72 stanford nursery school kids
SCT
Joy, Kimball and Zabrack
aim: to study the impact of television on children’s agressive behaviour
sample: 120 kids from 3 small town in BC, TV introduced to Notel
SCT
steele and aronson
aim: to investigate the effect of stereotype threat on test performance in black and white aprticipants
sample: 114 male and female stanford undergrads
Stereotypes
Hamilton and gifford
aim: to test the extent of distinctivness based illusory theory and negative stereotyping by people towards a minority group
sample: 40 american undergraduates
stereotypes
emic approach
culture
looking at culturally specific behaviours by immersing yourself in it
etic approach
culture
comparing behaviours across cultures and finding similarities/universal features of the cultures
methods of enculturation
- direct tuition
- observatory learning (SCT)
- participatory learning
Berry’s strategies for adopting cultural change
- integration
- assymilation
- marginalisation
- seperation
Kearins
aim: to look at the effect culture has on cognitive process
sample: 44 adolescent desert indigenous Australian
44 adolescent caucasian australians
Barry
aim:to investigate the differences in parenting practices of high food accumulation and low food accumulation cultures
sample: children from 5-adolescence, data from 46 cultures
Fagot
aim: to look at the role parents play in gender-role development
sample: 24 families, 12 with a boy, 12 with a girl, all caucasian from varying socio-economic statuses
Miranda and Matheny
aim: to investigate which factors in thue lives of Latino immigrants to the US would decrease the level of acculturative stress
sample: 197 spanish speaking American immigrants
Lueck and Wilson
aim: to investigate the variables that may predict the acculturative stress in Asian Immigrants and Asian Americans
sample: 2095 asian americans, about half first generation immigrants
sections of the phonological loop
- phenological store
- articulatory control system
Milner
aim: to investigate the effect that surgery had on the memory of patient HM
sample: HM, kit by car at 7, seziers, surgery at 27
Quinn and Mcconnell
aim: to establish and investigate the characteristics of the cisuo-spatial sketchpad
sample: 32 university of St Andrews undergrads
Glanzer and Cunitz
aim: to investigate the serial position effect with and without interference from a filler activity
sample: 46 army enlisted men
Warrington and Shalice
aim: to investigate the relationship between STM and LTM by seeing if one can be impaired without affecting the other
sample: KF, brain damage after accident, LTM intact but STM impaired, could move info from STM to LTM
Brewer and Treyens
aim: to investigate the role of schema in the encoding and retreival of episodic memory
sample: 86 university physchology students
Anderson and Pitchert
aim: to investigate the influence of schema on the retreival of information from LTM
Sampla: 39 introductory psych students
Shaw and Porter
aim: to see if it’s possible for researchers to implant a false memory of comitting a crime in a lab setting
sample: 70 canadian college students
Yuille and cutshall
aim: tok determine whether leading questions would affect the memory of eyewitnesses at a real crime scene
sample: 13 eyewitnesses (convenience sample)
