Experimental psychology

From the psychology classes that I took last year, I am able to define psychology as the study of the mind and its processes. However, because psychology looks at something that cannot be measured and observed at all times, there are many theories that sprout from the topic. Freudianism, behavioral and biochemistry are just a few examples. Biochemistry focuses on the theory that biological and chemical factors directly affect one’s psychological state while Freudianism looks at the unconscious…

During the discussion, one of the other subjects underwent what appeared to be a very serious nervous seizure like epilepsy. The major dependent variable was the time elapsed from the start of the victim's fit until the subject left her experimental cubicle. The major independent variable was the number of people the subject thought to be in the discussion group. The main results stated that those in group of 2 people responded quicker than those in a 3 or 6 group, an analysis of variance…

selected, a design including other people psychologists are obliged to follow a set of enforceable rules of conduct. Those rules also called Ethical Standards guarantee the safety and constant well-being of the participants. The Association of Psychology list beneficence and no maleficence as the principle that psychologist pursue to safeguard the welfare of subject researched. This principle eliminates bias researches which can affect the public negatively if not enforced. Fidelity and…

cognitive dissonance and derivations in relation to forced compliance (Festinger and Carlsmith 1957). An obvious strength of this piece of research is the importance of the theory to the field of psychology. Cognitive Dissonance theory is one of the most extensively studied theories in social psychology and is considered one of the most influential theories in the field. (Gabronski 2012, Perlovsky 2013,…

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The journal name is Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and the article I have selected is Understanding patterns of attitude change: When implicit measures show change, but explicit measures do not (2008), written by Bertram Gawronski and Etienne P. LeBel. The main purpose of this study is to recognize the changes on implicit but not explicit measures. Researchers did this so they would have more insight on the attitude changes that coincide with implicit and explicit changes. They have…

conditioning. A well known example is Pavlov’s experiment-- classically conditioning a dog to salivate upon hearing a bell because it associates the bell with the smell of food. The behaviorism perspective lies on the nurture side. The humanistic psychology perspective is the understanding of human nature and condition. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a representation of natural human…

When looking into the history of psychology it is apparent that much transformation took place. After the formal beginnings of modern psychology different ideas began to transform into various schools of thought. They began with the study of the conscious with structuralism and functionalism then moved onto the unconscious with psychoanalysis. Soon the mind was not the center of concentration, the research expanded to behavior with behaviorism and gestalt psychology offered a deeper look into…

assistant Rosalie Rayna in 1920. Watson moved to John Hopkins University in 1908, and became head of department in 1909. He published his first article in 1913 titled, “Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it”. In this article, he states that the theoretical goal of behaviorism is the prediction and control of behavior (Watson, Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It, 1913). His thinking was best considered within the settings of his time. To control and being in control was an important aspect…

Kinesiologists Wei Guo, Biye Wang, Qin Zhu, and Jie Ren from the Shanghai University of Sport in China conducted a laboratory study where they investigated, using the scientific method of experimental research, whether or not listening to relaxing music helped with mental fatigue and maintained performance after a continuous performance task. The researchers did this by manipulating variables to determine causation. The manipulated variable was relaxing music, which they tested against mental…