... photographs were 10 heterosexual couples of mixed ethnicity and varying ages. An instruction sheet was given to participants with consent in which they signed to accept the terms. They were later given a debrief of what was being tested. Procedure Firstly the ...

... Smith, Ward, and Schumacher (1993) and Marsh, Landau, and Hicks (1996) have shown the standard conformity effect - that participants will incorporate shared features from examples into novel drawings more frequently than participants who are not shown any examples Smith et ...

... scientific experiment and the authority appeared to be academic experts at a top university, people would have trusted them and obeyed. In contrast Hofling et al's (1966) experiment, participants were studied to investigate obedience in American hospitals, they found that ...

... This is supportive of the claim that different pools of resources are available for different types of tasks as opposed to all tasks drawing on a single central pool of resources. Method Design Using a between-participants design a dual task study was conducted. ...

... where the direction-giver was male. The Dependent Variable (DV) was the number of miles the participant would continue to drive after reading the vignette, if they were the driver. Participants were asked to give an exact number of miles they ...

... a crime and put society at peace until finding that the convict was innocent. This led to research in the loop holes of eyewitness testimony and how they can be avoided. Kassin, Ellsworth & Smith (1989) suggested that there is ...

... the shock by only a small amount each time makes the participant feel as though they have just given a shock which is only a small amount less painful than the one they are about to give, so they are ...

... our own value system. Furthermore, we sometimes predict what others will do based upon stereotypes that are manufactured socially or on a personal level. When one encounters a situation where quick judgment is made, this is often an unconscious thought ...

... was carried out using two group of ten males, aged 16-18, using opportunity sampling within the school common room, and asked each member to commit as many trigrams as possible to memory for one minute, from a list of twenty ...

... suggest that such memories really are like photographs in their accuracy. Flashbulb memories are claimed to differ from 'ordinary memories' because they involve an enduring imprint of events surrounding an important incident. The imprint is both lasting and unchanging. It ...

... been exposed to a natural disaster such as a volcanic eruption may resent it if experimenters start asking them detailed questions about their mental health or psychological well being. Milgram's work raises important ethical issues - issues that also apply ...

... whether this was factual or not. He originated a study asking over 1800 high school & college students, as well as non-student adults, 'by the comparison with the national average score of 100, what do you estimate your IQ would ...

... complete unit, this meant that when seeing something with the right eye (left hemisphere) they could not react to it with their left hand (right hemisphere). This study was one of the first that helped to discover that the two ...

... results of this change on it. I am also interested in the debate about it and I am also interested in the way this debate has developed as it explains the way in which the British family lives. I am ...

... to the left hemisphere (which has the language capacity). As can be expected, information that is presented to the left visual field is registered by receptors on the right side of the eye and transmitted to the right hemisphere (which ...

... People do have a belief that they can spot a homosexual person within a crowd. Now, if someone were to picture the stereotypical homosexual male or female the image is quite distinguishable. When people picture a female who is a ...

... participant was presented with 4 different experimental sheets comprising the stimuli for each condition, SS words, SD words, SS pictures and SD pictures. The task was to name each object from a picture or word representation as quickly as possible. Statistical ...

... this ability e.g. stopping talking when interrupted, avoiding a falling object when walking a straight line. Inhibitory control can be linked to automatic behaviours and attention control. Logan & Cowen (1984) developed a theory to account for inhibition of ...

... experiment whenever they like. Milgram also broke the consent guideline as the participant did not know the true meaning of the experiment but that was hard to do. If Milgram had told them the meaning then the experiment wouldn't have ...

... experiment in addition to the independent variable, causing incorrectness of data. Since data collected indicates the true or false probability of hypothesis, extraneous variable must be eliminated or regulated by a control group. Independent variable is controlled when varied in ...

... boxes. scale: 0-unaffected 1-Occassionally affected 2-affected 3-frequently affected 4-severely affected Stress Questionnaire Data Stressors Illness Questionnaire Data Illnesses Summary Chart Order Scores KEY FOR STRESSORS & ILLNESSES A graph showing which are the most popular stressors A graph showing which are the most popular illnesses Scattergraph showing the correlation between stress & illness A graph to ...

... any social life that they may have had previously. Even though several of these myths are dissolving and a more positive attitude towards the elderly is developing, many young people still accept these stereotypes. In 1998, Anthony Greenwald, McGhee and ...

... opportunity sample of 20 grammar school girls aged 12-13 was used, in two groups as part of our independent measures design. One group was shown a video of a staged argument between a girl and a teacher, and told they were ...

... useful to a researcher who wants to describe the naturally occurring similarities in a large number of individuals or groups. An example of correlational research could be studying the aging of elderly people. The older people become the more wrinkles ...

... may want to have selection criteria for participants so as to control for confounding variables. Method Design A between participants design was used in this experiment. The Independent Variable was the gender of the person giving directions, either male or female. This produced ...