Studys

• What was the aim of milgrims obedience study

  to find out if a normal person would give someone an electric shock (that would kill them) because a authority figure told them to
• what are the four stages of development Piaget

  Sensori-motor

  pre-operational

  concrete operational

  formal operational
• Bartlett’s War of the ghost study aim


  To see how a story from a different culture would affect our memory because of the cultural differences
• What was Bartlett’s theory


  We change our memories to fit in with what we already know

  (schema adaptation)
• Strengths of Bartlett


  used materials that were relevant to real life
• Weaknesses of bartlett 


  People had opinions that the study was deliberately confusing so it was unreliable
• What did Murdock want to find in his study


  if memory of words was affected by the no.1 of words a person had to remember
• the aim of milgrims study


  To see if a normal person would give someone an electric shock if told to by an “authority figure”
• Formal operatinal stage 


  Teen to adult years

  hypothetical problem solving and abstract thinking

  can also categorise
• Pre operational stage 


  2 to 7

  an object/word can stand for something else (symbolic representation)

  believe objects like toys have human lives and feelings
• Concrete operational stage

  7 to 11

  develops the ability to problem solve and think logically (only to objects they can see hence “concrete”)