Yamamoto Chimpanzee helping Flashcards
Social approaches case study 3
What year was the study published?
2012
This study was to find out if chimps understand the needs of other chimps, these other chimps are referred to as:
Conspecifics
This was linked to the Theory of ToM in cognitive psychology. What does this stand for?
Theory of Mind
What type of experiment was this?
Lab experiment
What CAN’T we do in a Field experiment?
Choose our Participants
A confounding variable is an extraneous variable which has not be controlled as so interferes with the experiments results? True or False?
True
How many conditions were there in this experiment?
2
The IV was :
Whether the ‘helper’ chimp gave helping or not
How many Chimpanzees took part?
- There were 6 chimpanzees, however only 5 could take part.
What design was used?
Repeated measures
What might happen as a result of Order Effects?
Participants might: get tired/fatigued, might ‘suss out’ what the research is about and change their behaviour and might get better at what they are doing.
What is Counterbalancing?
A way to cope with order effects
How many trials were there?
48
When was the trial ended?
After 5 mins or if the chimp offered to help
In the ‘can see’ objects were offered in?
91% of trials
