Samples

Question 1

Milgram Sample

Answer 1

40 males aged 20-50 from newhaven and sorrounding areas from a range of occupations

Question 2

Bocchiaro sample

Answer 2

160 undergrads but 11 removed due to suspicions so overall 149, age mean 20.8 from amsterdam either given 7 euros or course credit

Question 3

Piliavin Sample

Answer 3

Aprox 4500 males and females on the NYC subway between the hours of 11-3 in 1968 45% black 55% white

Question 4

Levine Sample

Answer 4

23 countries largest cities, excluded people walking in groups, children under 17, disabilities.

Question 5

Loftus and Palmer exp 1

Answer 5

45 (5 groups of 9) from washington uni USA

Question 6

Loftus and palmer exp 2

Answer 6

150 (3 groups of 50) from washington Uni

Question 7

Grant Sample

Answer 7

39 (17W, 23M) 17-56 yrs, Iowa USA, mean age 23.4

Question 8

Moray exp1

Answer 8

male and female undergrad research workers

Question 9

Moray exp 2

Answer 9

12 male and female undergrad research workers

Question 10

Moray exp 3

Answer 10

28 male and female undergrad research workers

Question 11

Simons and Chabris

Answer 11

228 Observers almost all undergrads, volenteered for either free/large candy bar/ single fee if they participated in this and another unrelated study

Question 12

Bandura

Answer 12

72 (36 boys, 36 girls) stanford uni nursery, 37-69 months, responding to an ad

Question 13

Chaney

Answer 13

32 (22boys, 10 females), 1.5-6 yrs , on average have needed a spacer for 2.2 yrs, parents answered the questions

Question 14

Kholberg

Answer 14

75 american boys 10-16 monitored over 3 year intervals till they were 22-28
Also studied boys from the UK, mexico, tiwan, turkey.

Question 15

Lee

Answer 15

120 chinese children, 40 7,9,11 yr olds all 20 girls 20 boys, from schools in hangzou and another distric, elementary kids
108 canadian children, 36 (20M,16F) 7yr olds, 40 9 yr olds (24M,16F), 32 11 YR OLDS (14M,18F) from elementary school in fredrickton and newbrunswick

Question 16

Sperry

Answer 16

11 patients at least 1 female who had severe epilepsy and had their corpus callosum severed to reduce the symptoms, 9 recently had surgery

Question 17

Casey

Answer 17

562 4 yr olds from stanford bing uni nursery completed a delayed gratification task
155 did self control tests in their 20’sand 135 in their 30’s
117/135 were contacted
59/117 agreed to participate
Exp 1: 32 high delayers, 27 low delayers
Exp 2: 27/59 to experiment 2
15 high delayers
11 low delayers

Question 18

Blackmore and cooper

Answer 18

2 kittens born and raised in the dark room and then in different line orientated environments

Question 19

Maguire

Answer 19

16 london taxi drivers, right handed, males, mean age 44 passed the knowledge of avg 14.3
Control group 50 VBM, 16 pixel counting
Matched on age, handedness

Question 20

Baron-Cohen group 1

Answer 20

16 participants,4 with HFA 12 with aspergers, all at least avg intelligence
Ad in the autism society national magazine
(13M,3F)

Question 21

Baron-Cohen group 2

Answer 21

50 normal age matched (25M,25F) with avg intelligence from cambridge

Question 22

Baron-cohen group 3

Answer 22

10 with tourettes age matched to group 1 (8M,2F) normal intelligence, london refferal centre

Question 23

Freud

Answer 23

Little Hans ages 3-5, corresponding via his father a fan of freuds work who contacted Freud about this

Question 24

Hancock

Answer 24

14 Psychopaths 38 non-psychopaths from a canadian correctional facility, all admitted to their crimes all volenteered, no difference in type of crime and time since crime,

Question 25

Gould

Answer 25

A review on yerkes
1.75 million army recruit males in preparation for ww1 assignments
mix of races