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Split Brain Behavior in man.
showed two distinctive brains in human body. Studied patients with seperated brain hemispheres. Ethical |
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| Mental Stimulation leads to increased brain function/size. Used rats in experiment with three different types of situations. Killed/dissected rats at end so possible ethical implications. |
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| used twins to study iq, morality, blood pressure, personality, interests etc. Ethical. Case study/observational. |
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| The visual Cliff experiment. Tested whether babies could determine depth perception. They could, most cried etc when approached the cliff. |
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| Learned that human children could understand world in very simple ways from birth. Chicks pecked at round shaped foods before others. No ethicality issues. |
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| If Eye movement has something to do with dreaming. Discovered REM sleep. Discoveres stages of sleep. Laboratory observation. Ethical. |
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| Dreams were purely psychological interpretations of random impulses. not fortelling of future, etc. Found sensory motor input is blocked in sleep. Lab observation. Ethical. |
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| Acting as if you are hypnotized. People only assume they were hypnotized because they have interpreted their own behavior as what theyd expect. Group studies. Ethical. some hypnosis made it actually feel involunary though it was voluntary. |
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| If dogs can be classically trained. Learned behavior in dogs. Classical Conditioning success. Ethical. |
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| Fears innate or Learned? Showed fears are learned through scaring child with white fuzzy things. Unethical, hurt child in long run psychologically. |
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| Studied positive/negative reinforcement. Superstitious pigeons. Put pigeons in cell, gave them food and they repeated what they were doing when given food. Starved pigeons, type of bird may lead to wrong data. Correlation. |
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| See agression...do agression. Children witnessing other agressive adults would be more agressive, those witnessing passive adults more passive. Males more agressive. Imitate their same sex. |
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| Self Fuffilling prophecies. Told teachers some students were smarter than others at random, they did better at the end of the year tests. No consent. Experimental. |
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| Said that there are multiple ways of being smart. mathematical,musical, linguistic etc. Case study/observing. |
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| Maps in your mind. Tested rats in mazes to see if they were memorizing direction or actually understood locations of things. Showed they did. Ethical. Experimental. |
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| Leading Questions. Asked groups of students questions using different words, showed that responses changed to the severity of words used. Ethical. Experimental. |
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| Studied monkeys through their choice of mothers from nourishment/touch and nurture as well. Monkeys chose touch and nourishment, those without thouch and love were more prone to sickness. Caring towards monkey somewhat unethical. |
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| Cognitive development. Case Study. Showed progression of mind from "out of sight out of mind" to other higher levels of thinking. |
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| Morality Study. Observational. Showed pre-morality: moral for personal gain/not getting punished. Social: moral because without morality there is social disorder. postmorality: immoral because there is an injustice that needs to be fixed. |
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| Effects of Choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged. Enhanced personal power to see if emotions would improve. Used Nursing homes to give older folks more power over their life. Ethical. Survey. |
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| Study of physiological and psychological response to sexual stimulation. Sexual arousal was put in many different ways and studies results. discovered sexual response cycle. |
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| Universiality of emotions/facial expressoins. Correlational study. Showed facial expressions of Americans to African indegenious. Showed facial expressions are innate/universal. ethical. |
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| Stress. Survey. Asked a bunch of people events which were stressfull. |
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| If you do/say something against your true believe/opinion you'll feel bad about it. but if you view inconsistent behavior to be of your own choosing, the more you'll dislike it. |
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| Are you the master of your fate? talking about believe in luck vs. work. |
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| psychological androgony. survey study. Showed most people lean towards their sex or are androgonous. |
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| Heart disease with realtion to personality type. Case study/correlational. More stressed/type a personality more likely to have heart disease as opposed to type b. Only used males. Ethical. |
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| Studied four countries for societal tendencies. 2 types: collectivists or people who work for community/family. Individualists or people who work for their own benifit. US huge for indivdualist. Ethical. Naturalistic. |
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| If health care professionals can actually tell if someone has a mental disease. |
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| All about some ego. How people mentally change reality to suite thier ego. Observational. Showed repression of morality/ projection or objection to do the opposite of what they want/ use social issues to be safe. Cannot be replicated. |
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| Failure to escape traumatic shock. Learning to be depressed. Shocked dogs where they couldn't escape, and later where they did. Few dogs escaped when they could. Um not so ethical. |
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| population density vs. social pathology. Four pens, the last two were only gaurded by one male and the middle by a bunch. Basically alpha male controlled all outside pens. |
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| Effects of counseling and psychotherapy. Showed therapys actually helped alot. |
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| Systematic desensitation treatment of neurosis. |
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| psychodiagnostics. Interpretation of blobs. Case study. |
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| Peoples behavior driven by unconscious forces. most stories came from books/movies/personal experiences. Input their own selves into the study. |
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| pathology of imprisonment. Environment around you determines who you are more than yourself. |
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| Shows power of conformity. People are 60 percent likely to conform. Match the line test. More likely to conform in small groups than big groups. Experimental |
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| Help or not to help. Bystanders during emergencies. The more people around during an emergency, the less people will actually participate in emergency needs. Ethical/ debreifed. |
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| Showed how authority figure gets obedience from others. Experimental. Put agressive leader against passive in tests, showed agressive followers more in agressive leader and vice versa. shock test |
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