by BlastRoom
The classic studies: what each did, what it found, and what it showed.
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Outrun the snow together.
Earn blasts, then hunt the other team.
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The class blasts through walls together.
Bid on mystery lots. Most money wins.
Sell tours. Nice, standard, or a total scam.
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More correct answers pulls the rope your way.
Answer, then shoot down the alien wave.
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Infant monkeys had a wire surrogate that gave milk and a cloth surrogate that gave no milk; they clung mostly to the cloth one. Whose research is this?
A baby was shown a white rat while a loud noise was made, then later showed fear of the rat alone. What study used this procedure?
A rat pressed a lever in a chamber and received food pellets, letting the researcher study how consequences shape responding. Whose work is this?
A researcher memorized nonsense syllables, tested himself after delays, and graphed how recall declined over time. Whose study is this?
Children took practical tasks designed to identify who needed extra help in school, creating an early intelligence test. Whose work is this?
A patient nicknamed Tan understood speech better than he could produce it; autopsy showed damage in the left frontal lobe. Which researcher is tied to this case?
Dogs exposed to unavoidable shocks later failed to escape when escape was possible. Whose learned helplessness research is this?
Newly hatched goslings followed the first moving object they saw during a brief early period. Whose research is this?
In Asch's line-judgment studies, what did many participants do when a unanimous group gave an obviously wrong answer?
In Milgram's obedience study, what happened in the baseline condition when an authority urged participants to continue?
In Gibson and Walk's visual cliff procedure, what did most crawling infants do at the apparent drop?
In Ainsworth's Strange Situation, what behavior did securely attached infants tend to show?
In Loftus and Palmer's car-crash study, what happened when the question used the word smashed instead of hit?
In Bandura's Bobo doll study, what did children often do after watching an adult hit the doll?
In Garcia's taste-aversion studies, what did rats learn after a flavored drink was followed by nausea?
In Ekman's cross-cultural research on facial expressions, what did many people from different cultures do?
In Zimbardo's Stanford prison simulation, what pattern led researchers to end the study early?
In Piaget's conservation tasks, what did many preoperational children say after liquid was poured into a taller, thinner glass?
After surgery removed parts of H.M.'s medial temporal lobes, he could not form many new explicit memories but still learned some skills. What does this show?
Phineas Gage survived a tamping iron passing through his frontal lobe area and then behaved very differently than before. What does this case support?
A dog salivates to a bell after the bell has repeatedly been paired with food. What learning process does this demonstrate?
Cats in puzzle boxes escaped faster when escape produced food. What principle did Thorndike use this finding to support?
After a failed prophecy, some believers in Festinger's study recruited more converts instead of abandoning the belief. What does this illustrate?
Rosenhan's pseudopatients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals, and ordinary behaviors were often interpreted as symptoms. What did the study show?
Scores on varied mental tests tend to correlate positively, which Spearman called the positive manifold. What concept did he infer from it?
In Sherif's Robbers Cave study, hostile groups became less hostile after they had to work together to fix the camp's water supply. What does this show?
Tolman's rats ran a maze without reward for days, then improved quickly once food was placed at the goal. What did adding food reveal?
In Milgram variations, obedience dropped when the experimenter gave orders by telephone instead of being physically present. What did that change show?
In Asch's line studies, adding one ally who gave the correct answer sharply reduced conformity. What did that variation reveal?
In Bandura's later modeling work, children imitated aggression less after seeing the model scolded for it. What principle did that condition support?
Harlow's infant monkeys ran to the cloth surrogate when frightened, even when the wire surrogate provided milk. What did that condition reveal?
In Darley and Latane's seizure study, participants helped more slowly when they believed several others also heard the emergency. What did that change reveal?
Rosenhan's pseudopatients entered real psychiatric hospitals reporting one symptom and then observed institutional reactions. What research method best fits this?
Researchers studied H.M. intensively over years after his brain surgery to link his memory pattern to medial temporal lobe damage. What method was this?
Gibson and Walk placed infants on a visual cliff apparatus that controlled visual depth cues and recorded whether they crossed. What design was this?
Terman followed a large group of high-IQ children across decades to study adult outcomes. What research design was this?
Children watched an adult punch and kick an inflatable doll, then later copied some of the same aggressive acts. Which study used this procedure?
A participant compared line lengths aloud after confederates intentionally gave the same wrong answer. Which study used this procedure?
A teacher was ordered by an experimenter to deliver increasing shocks to a learner who protested. Which study used this procedure?
A child's doll preferences and racial identification were tested with otherwise similar Black and White dolls. Which study used this procedure?
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