10 EXPERIMENTS

Cards (17)

  • is a psychological phenomenon demonstrating interference in reaction time of a task. First described in the 1930s by psychologist John Ridley Stroop
    The Stroop effect
  • The gender experiment conducted by
    John Money
  • a twin boy raised as a girl following a botched circumcision.
    David Reimer
  • a psychologist, conducted experiments on rhesus monkeys in the 1970s
    Harry Harlow
  • was a device designed to induce depression-like behaviors in monkeys.
    Pit of Despair
  • claimed that he had a “cure” for homosexuality, and in 1969 he was given a chance to test his theory with immunity
    Dr. Aubrey Levin
  • It is a program implemented in ____ during Apartheid by Dr. Aubrey Levin, centered around attempts to change the sexual orientation of gay and lesbian soldiers in the military
    south africa
  • It was conducted by _________ in the 1890s and published his results in 1897. this experiment aimed to study the classical conditioning in dogs.
    Russian Physiologist Ivan Pavlov
  • refers to the process of an automatic, conditioned response that is paired with a specific stimulus.
    Classical conditioning
  • experimenters: university of chicago's scientists dr. Inbal Benmai Bartal, Dr. Jean Decety, and Dr. Peggy Mason
    empathy and pro-social behavior in Rats (2011)
  • was interested in seeing if the adult brain was capable of neuroplasticity
    Edward Taub
  • Taub runs the Institute for Behavioral Research (IBR), a federally funded laboratory in ____ In the summer of 1981, PETA’s founder, Ingrid Newkirk, leafed through the pages of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s list of laboratories,

    Silver Spring, Maryland
  • The monkeys used were ____ and Taub was charged with ____, but his conviction was overturned.
    Philippine-born macaque monkeys & 17 counts of animal cruelty
  • This skill is known as ' _________ ' . There is evidence that birds have this skill as it helps in their survival.
    symbolic representation
  • This study was conducted by an animal psychologist, ________. She was also a research associate lecturing at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA
    Doctor Irene Pepperberg
  • is the condition of a human or animal that has learned to behave helplessly
    Learned helplessness
  • they conducted Learned helplessness in 1967
    Martin Seligman and Steven Maier