Ripple effect

Stroop Effect: Color and Word Naming John Ridley (J.R.) Stroop, as described by C. Macleod (1991), was born into a farming community and was not expected to live past infancy, so he was sheltered by his family to protect him. Due to not having to do heavy farm work, Stroop focused on his education and graduated top of his class. He eventually received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology. Stroop performed the Stroop effect experiment as his dissertation, which was then actually not rediscovered…

González-Menéndez, Fernández, Rodríguez, and Villagrá (2013) studied the effects of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on 37 female inmates were incarcerated for a drug-related crime; participants were not abstinent from substances at the beginning of the study. Participants were randomly assigned to ACT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and data was collected for two years (González-Menéndez, 2013). The purpose of the study was to determine the long-term efficacy of ACT on drug abuse…

create unity and harmony for the family overall, the newly united parents can deprioritize their relationship and marriage (Burton). These reprioritizations from wife and husband to their disagreeing son and daughter can lead to several, debilitating effects, such as many heated arguments or the “guilty parent complex.” When this occurs, one parent is seen as the enforcer – the parent who makes sure that the children go to bed on time, brush their teeth, and take their vitamin, or they can be…

Ever since I could remember, I have always been skeptical about personality assessments because I simply assumed they all have high levels of generalizability. However, this class has helped open my eyes to the different forms of personality tests and their benefits. I never took the time to think about the different forms of determining qualities of an individual’s personality. Whether it is a projective test (e.g., the Rorschach Inkblot test) or objective test (Minnesota Multiphasic…

The aim of this research study is to test the Stroop effect. The Stroop effect was first stablished by J. Ridley Stroop when he discovered a phenomenon in which people had a little difficulty when naming the color of the word. The “Speed of Processing” model states that the reading response occurs faster than the color-naming response, arguing that at the moment of receiving a task involving color-naming, the word stimuli receives the response before the word stimuli, leading to disorientation.…

[2] We could never get the full effect of her original pieces unless we were there, that much is true, but through the slides and film strips we see of hers, we know she wanted her work to be seen, distributed, and known throughout the art world and beyond. It would be impossible to get the same quality or effect as a performance piece, or an earth-body work, but the idea would still get across to the viewer. Though Ana…

This man is a legend when it comes to special effects. The things he did for that film will be looked at as a masterpiece forever. Most people don't realize that movie came out in 1939. That's almost 80 years ago. To be able to produce those kinds of special effects that long ago really takes a master at his craft. He has a very successful career in special effects and rightfully so. Special effects have really grown since those kind of movies. Now everything can be done…

This is illustrated as the bystander effect took place in social influence and diffusion of responsibility in the classical study of the murder of Kitty Genovese. The historical formation of the research on group dynamics and the influences on prosocial behavior of Kurt Lewin and the Society…

Nate Bretches Diffusion of Responsibility and the Bystander Effect Rough Draft “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call Police” (Manning et al.). This is the famous article title written by journalist Martin Gansberg of the New York Times two weeks after the brutal rape and murder of Kitty Genovese (Manning et al.). This case is really quite fascinating. On the early morning of March 13th, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a young woman living in the Kew Gardens district of Queens, New York, was brutally murdered…

Prosocial behavior and altruism are two topics that are being studied within social psychology to try to understand the motivation behind humans to help those in need. Researchers have made various theories of why some people are more willing to help humans in need than other people and why people choose to help victims when they do. These theories do a great deal of explaining why exactly prosocial behavior and altruism occur when they do with regard to genetics, culture, and many other factors…