IB Psych Paper 1

• Asch (1956)


  Aim: To test conformity to the majority incorrect opinion in an unambiguous situation

  • Line test, confederates, interview
• Chen, et al (2005)


  Aim: to investigate the role of long-term orientation on an individuals buying habits

  • Shopping scenario, cutlery, primed cultures, Western orientation
• Bandura (1961)


  Aim: to investigate if social behaviors can be changed by observed aggression

  • Videos, opposite or same sex, bobo doll
• Steele and Aronson (1995)


  Aim: to investigate how stereotype threat affects test performance in African American students

  • SAT-like test, intellectual ability, anxiety
• Kearins (1981)


  Aim: to investigate whether Aboriginal people might perform better on tests that take advantage of their ability to encode with visual cues

  • 44 Aboriginal children and 44 Australian children, 20 piece board with 20 objects, 30 seconds, culture
• Martin, et al (1995)


  Aim: to investigate how children make gender-based judgments when choosing toys

  • 4 year-olds, gender neutral toys, enculturation
• Miranda and Matheny (2000)


  Aim: to investigate which factors in the lives of Latin American immigrants in the United States would decrease the level of acculturative stress

  • 197 Spanish-speaking Immigrants, family cohesion, proficiency in English
• Milner (1955)


  Aim: to investigate the extent of Patient HM's memory deficiency

  • MRI, cognitive testing, psychometric testing, observation, interviews, procedural knowledge
• Landry and Bartling (2011)


  Aim: to investigate if articulatory suppression would influence recall of phonologically dissimilar letters in serial recall

  • 1 and 2, 7 random letters, 76% control
• Bartlett (1932)


  Aim: to investigate how information changes with each reproduction and to investigate why the information changes

  • British, Native American story, distortion
• Neisser and Harsch (1992)


  Aim: to investigate the extent to which a memory of a shocking event would be accurate after a period of time

  • Challenger explosion, 24 hrs and 2 years, 21.5% and 45% TV
• Sharot (2007)


  Aim: to investigate the role of biological factors on FBM

  • 9/11, summer, fMRI
• Tversky and Kahneman (1974)


  Aim: to investigate people's mental shortcuts and biases when making decisions utilizing System 1 thinking

  • 2 Hospitals scenario, 60 percent boys, 78% wrong
• Draganski (2004)


  Aim: to investigate whether the human brain can change structure in response to environmental demands

  • MRI, jugglers, 2 groups
• Maguire (2000)


  Aim: to investigate navigational experience in the context of the role of the cerebral hemispheres and if structural plasticity changes in response to navigational experience

  • London taxidrivers, white and grey matter
• Rogers and Kesner (2003)


  Aim: to investigate the role of Acetlycholine on memory encoding and retrieval

  • Rats, cholinesterone, maze
• Antonova, et al (2011)


  Aim: to investigate how blocking Acetylcholine receptors with Scopolamine affects spatial memory

  • Arena task, hippocampus, and spatial
• McGaugh and Cahill (1995)


  Aim: to investigate the role of Adrenaline and the Amygdala on emotional memory formation

  • Beta blocker, severed feet, boring story
• Newcomer, et al (1999)


  Aim: to investigate whether high levels of cortisol interferes with verbal declarative memory

  • 160mg, 40 mg, prose
• Weaver, et al (2004)


  Aim: to investigate whether the environment affects behavior, specifically stress levels

  • corticosterone, tubes, grooming and mothers
• Meaney (1988)


  Aim: to investigate the effect of glucocorticoids on memory

  • milky water pool, grooming, hippocampal cell loss, dementia
• Fisher, et al (2004)


  Aim: to investigate the neurophysiological correlation of early-stage romantic love

  • duration, intensity, range of feelings, questionnaired, fMRI, pictures
• Ditzen, et al (2009)


  Aim: to investigate the effects of oxytocin on couple interaction and cortisol levels

  • puffs of oxytocin, saliva, discuss disagreements
• Ronay and von Hippel (2010)


  Aim: to investigate if physical risk-taking by young men increases in the presence of an attractive female

  • Skateboarding, 96 (43, 53), saliva samples, VMPFC
• Neave, et al (2010)


  Aim: to investigate the relationship between dance moves and female attraction towards males

  • knee-bending, hip-thrusting, 34 women, variance
• Wedeking (1995)


  Aim: to investigate whether human body odors and female preferences for them are dependent on the MHC gene

  • cotton shirts, 49F and 44M, blood test, 3rd day
• Zhou (2014)


  Aim: to investigate the qualifications of 2 sex hormones: Estratetraenol and Androstadienone

  • 96 (48M, 48F), cloves with EST and AND, stick figures, inhale, AND male attraction, EST female attraction, communication of gender