Studies

Question 1

Asch (conformity)

Answer 1

line study

Question 2

Mori & Arai (conformity)

Answer 2

line study using MORI technique

Question 3

Jennes (conformity)

Answer 3

counting beans in a jar

Question 4

Hofling (obedience)

Answer 4

study using nurses

Question 5

Bickman (obedience)

Answer 5

uniform experiment

Question 6

Milgram (obedience)

Answer 6

Behavioural study of obedience - electric shock

Question 7

Dement & Kelitman (sleep)

Answer 7

REM sleep study to find a connection between REM and dreaming

Question 8

Siffre (sleep)

Answer 8

lived in a cave without light to see if it would affect his circadian rhythm

Question 9

Peter Tripp (sleep)

Answer 9

sleep deprivation on American DJ

Question 10

Randy Gardner (sleep)

Answer 10

sleep deprivation on a 17 year old boy

Question 11

Little Hans (dreams)

Answer 11

Freud’s case study on the dreams of a little boy who had a phobia of horses

Question 12

Czeisler et al. (sleep)

Answer 12

study of shiftwork

Question 13

Baddeley (memory)

Answer 13

study of encoding using lists of words with were either semantically or acoustically similar

Question 14

Peterson & Peterson (memory)

Answer 14

trigram study investigating duration of short term memory

Question 15

Shepard & Feng (memory)

Answer 15

study on the visuo-spatial sketchpad using flat models of cubes

Question 16

Baddeley & Hitch (memory)

Answer 16

dual task study using a visual task and a verbal/visuo-spatial task

Question 17

Baddeley & Hitch Rugby (memory)

Answer 17

studied rugby players who had played every game in a season vs those who missed some and their ability to recall the names of teams they had played - interference