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Psych Experiments

YGK These Psychological Experiments and Studies

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The Russian physiologist who pioneered the study of classical conditioning through experiments with dogs' digestive tracts Ivan Pavlov
The psychological phenomenon where dogs began salivating at the sight of the lab assistant who fed them Psychic secretion
The neutral stimulus used in Pavlov's core experiment (commonly misidentified as a bell) Metronome
The experiment conducted by John Watson and Rosalie Rayner to test the conditioning of fear in an infant The Little Albert experiment
The general type of stimuli (color/texture) that "Little Albert" learned to fear White, fluffy stimuli
The apparatus developed by B. F. Skinner to explore operant conditioning principles Skinner box
The psychological principle where behavior is increased or decreased through reinforcement or punishment Operant conditioning
The married team of psychologists whose "doll experiments" studied the perception of race in children Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth Clark
The Supreme Court case that cited the Clark's research in its decision to desegregate schools Brown v. Board of Education
The experiment designed by Solomon Asch to test if individuals would conform to a group's incorrect thinking about line lengths Asch conformity experiment
The Yale psychologist who conducted both the obedience experiment and the Small-World experiment Stanley Milgram
The experiment inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann, where subjects believed they were administering dangerous electric shocks The Milgram obedience experiment
The percentage of Milgram's participants who administered what would have been fatal shocks to the "learner" Over 60 percent
The experiment carried out by Albert Bandura at Stanford University to study the effect of adult models on children's behavior The Bobo doll experiment
The theory that suggests behaviors may be learned by observing models Social learning theory
The experiment conducted by Milgram to examine the interconnectedness of Americans by mailing packages from Nebraska/Kansas to Boston The original Small-World experiment
The common phrase coined as a result of the Small-World experiment's finding that packages typically arrived in five or six steps Six degrees of separation
The experiments with dogs that identified that individuals who believe they are powerless to stop a harmful stimulus will stop trying to avoid it Martin Seligman's learned helplessness experiments
The condition that the learned helplessness experiments had major implications for the understanding and treatment of Clinical depression
The 1971 study designed to examine power dynamics in custodial situations using college student participants The Stanford prison experiment
The Stanford psychologist who designed the prison experiment and later compared it to the abuses at Abu Ghraib Philip Zimbardo
The two roles randomly assigned to participants in the Stanford prison experiment Guards and prisoners
The specific method guards were required to use when referring to inmates to strip them of their identity By their number (not their name)
The nickname given to one of the most sadistic guards in the Stanford prison experiment John Wayne
The graduate student who raised ethical objections, causing the Stanford prison experiment to be shut down early Christina Maslach
The original intended duration of the Stanford prison experiment versus the number of days it actually lasted Two weeks (intended) vs. six days (actual)
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