biology

Cards (11)

  • Sperry: aim was to record the psychological effects with hemispheric deconnection in patients with severe epilepsy.
  • Sperry: controlled observation of split brain patients to investigate behavioral symptoms resulting from hemisphere deconnection.
  • Sperry: snapshot study.
  • Sperry: quasi experiment, IV is presense or absence of split brain, DV is p’ performance of tasks
  • Sperry: Opportunity sample of group of 11 split brain patients from LA.
  • Sperry: type of data
    primary data and qualitative data e.g how a patient responded to a symbol displayed to RVF.
  • Casey: aimed to see if the ability to delay or not was a consistent personality trait.
    and to see if the ability to delay gratification in childhood predicts impulse control later in life.
  • Casey: longitudinal study conducted for abt 40 years.
    present part of study involved 2 quasi experiments.
  • B+C: lab exp with independent measures design, as there were 2 groups of p’.
  • B+C:
    IV: whether kittens early experience was of totally horizontal or totally vertical environment.
    DV: were the behavioral and neuphysiological effects observed after being reared in a visually restricted environment
  • B+C: sample: 2 newborn kittens
    • 5 months old
    • unaffected by experience