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Asch (conformity)

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line study

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Mori & Arai (conformity)

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line study using MORI technique

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Jennes (conformity)

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counting beans in a jar

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Hofling (obedience)

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study using nurses

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Bickman (obedience)

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uniform experiment

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Milgram (obedience)

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Behavioural study of obedience - electric shock

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Dement & Kelitman (sleep)

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REM sleep study to find a connection between REM and dreaming

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Siffre (sleep)

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

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Oswald theory of sleep

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Restoration theory

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Randy Gardner (restoration theory)

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sleep deprivation on a 17 year old boy

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Peter Tripp (restoration theory)

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sleep deprivation on American DJ

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Shapiro et al. (restoration theory)

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compared marathon runners and non-marathon runners

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Spinal operations/drug overdose (restoration theory)

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hospital patients who experienced spinal operations or drug overdoses saw longer periods of REM

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Neurotransmitter levels (restoration theory)

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neurotransmitters decrease during the day

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Northwestern University (restoration theory)

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prescribed elderly patients who suffered from insomnia regular aerobic exercise

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Rat study (restoration theory)

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placed rats on a disc above water and monitored with an EEG

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Horne (restoration theory)

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sleep deprivation did not effect participants ability to play sports

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Rasch & Born argument of body restoration (restoration theory)

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body restoration can be achieved in a stat of quiet wakefulness and does not require sleep

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Horne & Harley (restoration theory)

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heated heads and faces of participants with hairdryers

20
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Car crash study (restoration theory)

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sleep deprivation leads to poor performance on the roads and an increased likelihood of accidents

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Little Hans (dreams)

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

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Crick & Mitchison theory of dreaming

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reorganisational theory of dreams

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Walker et al. (reorganisational theory)

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finger tapping task - sleep helps memories to become reliably encoded

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Medrick et al. (reorganisational theory)

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90 min nap has the same benefits as a full night of sleep - sleep helps to strengthen memories

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Seehagen et al. (reorganisational theory)

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babies who napped after learning a new task showed better recall - sleep facilitates information processing

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Czeisler et al. (sleep)

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study of shiftwork

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Chang et al. (sleep)

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studied participants who used electronics with blue light before bed

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Santhi et al. (sleep)

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found that blue light wavelength has a stronger effect of suppressing or delaying sleep and the production of melatonin

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Hobson & McCarley theory of dreams

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activation-synthesis hypothesis, dreams occur as a side effect of neurons randomly firing in a brain area called the Pons

30
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Atkinson & Shiffrin memory model

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Multi Store Model

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Baddeley (memory)

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

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Peterson & Peterson (memory)

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trigram study investigating duration of short term memory

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Baddeley & Hitch memory model

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working memory model

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Shepard & Feng (memory)

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

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Baddeley & Hitch (memory)

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

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case study of K.F (memory)

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brain damage from a motorbike accident, memory for verbal information was impaired but memory for visual information was unaffected

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Atkinson & Shiffrin argument of trace decay

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Forgetting in LTM is at least partly due to trace decay

38
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Bjork argument of trace decay

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items are not forgotten, they just lose retrieval strength

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Baddeley & Hitch Rugby (forgetting)

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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

40
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Tulving (forgetting)

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argued that information would be more easily retrieved if cues present when the information was stored were also present when retrieval is required.

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Godden & Baddeley (forgetting)

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the effects of context cues on recall with divers

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Darley et al. (forgetting)

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hiding money after smoking marijuana

43
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Maguire et al. (forgetting)

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London Taxi drivers hippocampal volume

44
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Patient H.M

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Suffered from epilepsy - had his hippocampus removed

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