Great Psychologists Quiz - By bootj004
Great Psychologists
Can you pick the psychologists from the description of their experiment? More Info
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Description of Experiments
- A group of researchers enter a mental institution and see how long it takes them to get out.
- A study where group conformity caused people to guess line length incorrectly.
- An experiment simulating a prison conducted at Stanford University.
- Inspired by Kitty Genovese, a study showing people will stay in a room filled with smoke if other people do too.
- A teacher showed that marking children as different for their eye colour can insight prejudice.
- When recalling information about a car crash, people are influenced by the questions they are asked about it.
- A summer camp study, where grouping boys in separate teams evoked a very strong rivalry.
- A large gorilla walks across the screen but no one notices as they are not attending to it.
- A researcher observes cognitive dissonance in a cult when the world doesn't end.
- A group of children are observed whilst trying to inhibit the desire of eating a marshmallow in hope of getting another.
- Researchers saw that children learned to be violent to a doll after watching a role model do it.
- Dogs are trained to salivate at the sound of a bell, demonstrating classical conditioning.
- The effects of priming as reading words relating to old people seems to decrease people's speed of movement.
- False memories, like being lost in a mall as a child, can be falsely implanted and become very detailed though entirely untrue.
More Info:
- Try to guess the name or names of the researchers based on the brief description of their research.
Quiz Stats:
- Total Questions: 14
- Timer: 10:00
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