AICE Psychology AS (Study Aims)

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Milgram

To investigate how obedient individuals would be to orders received from an authoritative figure even if it means harming another person.

Piliavin et al.

To investigate the effect of four situational variables on helping behavior

To investigate bystander effect and diffusion of responsibility in a natural setting

Perry et al.

To investigate the differential effect of oxytocin on personal space preference in people with high or low empathy levels.

Saavedra & Silverman

To investigate the causes of button phobia in a child.

To treat a child’s phobia of buttons via targeting both disgust and fear responses.

Bandura et al.

To investigate whether a child would learn aggression by observing a model and would reproduce behavior in the absence of the model and whether gender played a role.

Fagen et al.

To investigate whether free-contact traditionally trained elephants can be trained to participate in a trunk wash by using positive reinforcement.

Dement and Kleitman

To investigate if dream recall differs between REM and nREM.

To investigate if participants can accurately guess how long they’ve been dreaming in REM.

To investigate if eye movement patterns are related to dream content.

Holzel et al.

To identify changes in specific brain regions, and the whole brain, by comparing grey matter concentration before and after a mindfulness course.

Hasset et al.

To investigate whether toy preferences in monkeys resemble those in children in order to test whether sex differences in toy choice is biologically determined by sex.

Andrade

To investigate if doodling affects the recall of places & names

To test the effects of doodling on a boring or mundane task

Baron-Cohen et al.

To investigate whether an improved eye test would show clear impairment in a group of adults with ASD to assess its effectiveness.

To test normal adults on whether there was a negative correlation between scores on eyes test and AQ test.

To investigate whether there were sex differences in those w/o ASD in eyes test

Pozzulo et al.

To investigate if children were more likely to respond with more false positive responses when the target is absent from the lineup

If children were more likely than adults to show this pattern