Test: Important Studies in Psychology - 20 Questions

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  1. Seligman
  2. Darley & Latane
  3. Gibson & Walk
  4. Gilligan
  5. Langer & Rodin
  1. a Social Psych; Concepts: "Bystander Intervention in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility"
  2. b Development; Concepts: gender in moral development; Study Basics: Did moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Different reasoning, not better or worse
  3. c Social Psych; Concepts: Helping behavior, personal responsibility; Study Basics: The effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior
  4. d Development; Concepts: Visual Cliff; Study Basics: Visual Cliff studies with infants
  5. e Personality; Concepts: Learned helplessness; Study Basics: Learning to be depressed—the learned helplessness studies with dogs and electric shock

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Social Psych; Concepts: prison study, expectations; Study Basics: simulated Prison Study that showed the power of roles in people's behaviors. When one takes on a role, they will often change their behavior in order to fit the perceived set of expectations for that role.
  2. Psychopathology or Social Psych; Concepts: labeling; Study Basics: Rosenhan and colleagues checked selves into mental hospitals with symptoms of hearing voices say "empty, dull and thud." Diagnosed with schizophrenia. After entered, acted normally. Never "cleared" of diagnosis. Roles and labels in treating people differently.
  3. Development; Concepts: stages of moral development; Study Basics: Studied boys responses to and processes of reasoning in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is "Heinz" who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication and why?
  4. Development; Concepts: Birth order, first born, middle child, intelligence; Study Basics: Discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children
  5. Memory; Concepts: memory; Study Basics: Memory of meaningless words

5 True/False Question

  1. Skinner → Learning; Concepts: Operant conditioning, chaining; Study Basics: Trained animals to do complex behaviors; e.g. making pigeons exhibit superstitious behavior

          

  2. Wolpe → Cognition; Concepts: Cognitive map; Study Basics: Studied rats and discovered the cognitive map in rats and humans

          

  3. Harlow → Development; Concepts: Love, attachment; Study Basics: Cloth monkey and wire monkey mothers: which would the child monkeys go to when scared?

          

  4. Gazzaniga or Sperry → Bio Psych; Concepts: Split brain; Study Basics: Key aspects of split brain and how people with this situation will be able to perceive reality and particular sensory stimuli

          

  5. Holmes & Rahe → Motivation; Concepts: Stress and coping; Study Basics: Using a "social readjustment scale" to measure stress

          

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