Studies Flashcards
What did the Rosenhan study involve?
It was a field experiment where nine participants, including Prof. Rosenhan, were recruited. Each gained admission to one of the nine distinct hospitals. On admittance, the participants stopped displaying the symptoms of mental illness. Stays ranged from 7-52 days.
Findings- It is clearly less dangerous to misdiagnose mental illness than health.
What was the Bandura study?
Bandura performed a Bobo doll experiment.
He wanted to investigate whether social behaviours can be acquired by observation and imitation. 36 boys and 36 girls from the ages of 3-6 years. Lab experiment. Groups of children watched different figures perform aggressive or non-aggressive behaviours to the doll. Then, the children were able to be alone with the doll, to see if they would perform the same behaviours.
Findings- Children who were exposed to aggressive behaviours were far more aggressive than those who were exposed to non-aggressive groups.
What was the Pavlov’a dogs study?
Pavlov believed in classical conditioning, that behaviours can be learned through the association of different stimuli. Associating an unconditioned stimulus that already brings about a particular response with a new conditioned stimulus, so that the new stimulus brings out the same response. He performed this with dogs, when they see food, they salivated. Every time the food was there, Pavlov would ring a bell so that by the end of the experiment, the sound of the bell was solely enough to make the dogs salivate.
