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32 Cards in this Set
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How many of Milgrams participants reach the full 450 volts? |
65% or 26/40 |
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What is the highest voltage all participants reached (100%) ? |
300v (40/40) |
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What qualitative findings were there in Milgrams study on obedience? |
- Violent seizures of a few participants - All were visibly sweating/distressed
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From Reicher and Haslam's study on tyranny, what was a result of the groups becoming impermeable? |
The prisoners became more united and empowered. |
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In Reicher and Haslam, what happened in the guards group when the groups were told they were not legitimate? |
Guards were even less united than before and the prisoners became more confrontational |
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What happened when the groups failed? |
Tyranny ensued due to the power vacuum, a new regime asked for 'dark glasses and berets' so the study was halted for ethical reasons |
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In Piliavin et al, How many of the spontaneous helpers were male? |
90% |
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From Piliavin et al, in which condition of the IV (drunk/lame) was same race helping more prevalent? |
Drunk |
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From Piliavin et al, in which condition of the IV (drunk or lame) was helping more likely? |
Lame (pretty obvious really) |
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Which theory which was being tested in Piliavin et al was not seen? |
Diffusion of responsibility, no strong correlation between number of people in the carriage and speed of helping was seen. |
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From Piliavin et al, how many of the trials did participants leave the critical area? |
21/103 trials |
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Dement and Kleitman:
In the first hypothesis, which type of sleep resulted in the most incidences of dream recall? |
REM |
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Dement and Kleitman:
Did participants tend to get the estimation of dream length (5 or 15 minutes) correct? |
Yes, showing dreams move somewhat like real time |
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Maguire:
Which area of the hippocampus grew in volume in the taxi drivers MRI scans? |
Posterior, anterior was smaller than non-taxi drivers (vice versa) |
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Did Maguire find a correlation between time as a taxi driver and volume of the posterior hippocampus? |
Yes, the longer spent as a taxi driver the larger it was. |
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Sperry:
If an image was presented in one half of the visual field and then the other, did participants recognise it? |
No, but when it was presented in the original one it was. |
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Sperry:
Could participants talk about an image that was presented in their left visual field? |
No, they could point with their left hand to a matching picture or select the object from a grab bag. |
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Sperry:
Right hand + object = ? response |
Speech |
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Loftus and Palmer:
In the 1st experiment, what was the average speed estimate for the 'smashed' condition? |
40.8 mph |
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Loftus and Palmer:
In the 1st experiment, what was the average speed estimate for the 'smashed' condition? |
31.8 mph |
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Loftus and Palmer:
In the 2nd experiment, which condition of the IV resulted in the most responses of yes to 'Did you see broken glass'? |
Smashed |
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Loftus and Palmer:
What does this study show about the effect of the critical verb on memory? |
The critical verb influenced both the speed judged immediately afterwards and the memory of broken glass after a longer period. |
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Baron-Cohen:
Which group had the worst performance on the eyes task? |
The high-functioning autistic (Asperger's) diagnosed group. |
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Baron-Cohen:
Did males or females do better on the eyes task (advanced theory of mind)? |
Females |
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Baron-Cohen:
Which other test for theory of mind did the autistic group perform worst on? |
Happé's Strange Stories |
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Savage-Rumbaugh:
Between 6-16 months which two Pygmy chimpanzees began to communicate spontaneously? |
Kanzi and Mulika |
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Savage-Rumbaugh:
How was there lexigram use monitored? |
Two researchers observed video of the chimps communicating |
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Savage-Rumbaugh:
Which two older chimpanzees were also studied but could not comprehend things from other people's perspectives and were generally less able? |
Sherman and Austin |
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Freud:
Through what method did Freud gain information about Hans? |
Letters written between him and Hans' father. |
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Freud:
What word did Hans use to refer to his penis, which his mother threatened to remove? |
'Widdler' |
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Freud:
Did Hans like his baby sister, and how did Freud interpret this? |
No, Hans called her 'lumf' (poo). Freud inferred from this that Hans saw his sister as a rival for his mother's attention. |
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Freud:
Why did Freud interpret Hans' equinophobia as the Oedipus complex? |
The horses Hans was especially afraid of had black straps on their mouth and black blinkers, which Freud thought resembled the moustache and glasses of Hans' father. |