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What are all of the studies in the Social area

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Milgram
Bocchiaro
Piliavin
Levine et al

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What are all of the studies in the Cognitive area

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Loftus and Palmer
Grant et al
Moray
Simons and Chabris

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What are all the studies in the Developmental area

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Bandura
Chaney
Kohlberg
Lee et al

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What are all the studies in the Biological area

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Sperry
Casey
Blakemore and Cooper
Maguire

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What are all the studies in the individual differences area

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Freud
Baron-Cohen
Gould
Hancock

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Use one sentence to describe the Milgram experiment

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-Social study, used to study obedience to authority when shocking other people

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Use one sentence to describe the Bocchiaro experiment

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-Social study, used to study obedience to authority when doing an unethical act

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Use one sentence to describe the Piliavin experiment

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-Social study, used to study people on a subway and how they reacted to people in need

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Use one sentence to describe the Levine experiment

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-Social study, used across many countries to see how they would react to people in need around the world

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Use one sentence to describe the Loftus and Palmer experiment

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-Cognitive study, used to show how leading questions can change people schemas using car crash videos

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Use one sentence to describe the Grant experiment

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-Cognitive study, using context dependent memory to test silent and noisy conditions

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Use one sentence to describe the Moray experiment

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-Cognitive study, using auditory attention to test how people use dichotic listening to listen to two simultaneous audios in each ear

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Use one sentence to describe the Simons and Chabris experiment

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-Cognitive study, using visual attention to test people inattentional blindness to situations such as the gorilla and umbrella

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Use one sentence to describe the Bandura experiment

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-Developmental study, using a bobo doll to see if children would imitate a model when being aggressive

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Use one sentence to describe the Chaney experiment

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-Developmental study, using funhalers to se if children would take their medication through positive reinforcement

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Use one sentence to describe the Kohlberg experiment

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-Developmental study, using the levels of moral development to show how young peoples morals develop over time

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Use one sentence to describe the Lee experiment

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-Developmental study, using different cultures to find out their evaluations of lying and truth telling

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Use one sentence to describe the Sperry experiment

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-Biological study, using epileptic patients who have had a comisurotomy (split-brain) to show how the two sides of the brain work together

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Use one sentence to describe the Casey experiment

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-Biological study, using delay of gratification to study peoples ventral striatum and inferior gyrus (marshmallow)

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Use one sentence to describe the Blakemore and Cooper experiment

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-Biological study, using kittens to study the visual cortex in the early years of development and brain plasticity

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Use one sentence to describe the Maguire experiment

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-Biological study, using taxi drivers to investigate the brain plasticity of the hippocampus

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Use one sentence to describe the Freud experiment

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-Individual differences study, using Little Hans to understand the psychosexual stages and how we develop through them

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Use one sentence to describe the Baron-Cohen experiment

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-Individual differences study, using autistic adults they studied the theory of mind using the eye task, strange stories, basic emotion and the gender task

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Use one sentence to describe the Gould experiment

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An individual differences study, that analyses Yerks interpretation of the IQ testing and his view that America are a nation of ‘morons’

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Use one sentence to describe the Hancock experiment

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An individual differences study, that analyses the use of language in psychopaths using semi-structured interviews