METHODS FOR NAT 5

CONFORMITY: method of aschs study

50 male participants took part in the lab experiment and were Told it was an experiment into Visual perception. They were placed in a group with seven other individuals who were all actors. They were shown a series of 18 cards and asked to match the lines to the choice of three comparisons. The actors had all told to be given the same incorrect answers on the 12 out of 18 trials, the true participants was always last or second from last to answer this Put them in a position of having to choose between giving the clearly correct answer or conforming to the Majority and giving the wrong answer.

CONFORMITY: METHOD OF MORI AND ARAI

This laboratory experiment replicated to an ash type situation with length of lines but with an important twist there were no actors instead everyone wore a pair of specifically designed filtered glasses that allowed them to look at the same image but see different things. This meant that everyone was a true participant, but in each group one of the participant was given a different type of filtered glasses. That meant they were perceived the comparison line to be a different length 104 Japanese students participated 40 males 64 females were used in groups of four participants stated their answers allowed with the majority minority participant who had different glasses going Third.

SLEEP AND DREAMS: method of dement and kleitman

There were nine participants, seven male, two female and they were told to avoid alcohol and caffeine. The participant slept in our lab and were woken up by researches several times during the night they were asked if they had been dreaming and what they had been dreaming about

SLEEP AND DREAMS: little hans study

For study was a case study although it was unusual compared to the modern case studies as he did not actually directly study the patient himself but instead exchanged letters with the boys dad discussing the boys behaviour and in particular his phobia of horses

PHOBIAS: reseller and Dias method

They conducted a lab experiment using mice that had been trained to fear the smell of The chemical The smell of chemical acetophenone , percent of which has been compared to cherries and almonds they wafted the scent around a small chamber while giving small electric shocks to male mice The animals eventually learn to associate the scent with pain, shuddering in the presence of the scent even without a shock They then assessed the offspring of the trained mice to measure whether or not they had inherited the fear of the scent

PHOBIAS: method of little Albert

A child of about nine months named little Albert was selected for the experiment. He was fairly fearless child who only seemed to fear loud noises. This was a lab experiment in which Albert was given a number of baseline tests to check his reaction to lots of different neutral stimuli. He was exposed to things such as a rabbit a dog Cotton will a monkey a mask and burning newspapers Albert showed no fear towards any of these items.

NVC: METHOD OF EKMAN AND FRIESEN

They studied the fore people in Papua New Guinea a group that had been isolated for thousands of years living in a Stone Age culture. The tribe had very little contact with the outside world before the 1950S And although some had since met an interacted with outsiders, the researchers picked the participants who had experienced very little to such contact. They had never learned a western language seen a movie or worked for an Outsider the sample included 189 adults and 130 children around 3% of the total fore population for comparison researchers also studied 23 adults who had extensive contact with westerners

NVC: yuki et al method

Cross culture study using students from Japan and students from the USA they used 87 (45 male, 40 females, and two gender undisclosed) American students and 89(62 male and 27 female) Japanese students Participants were psychology students who volunteered in exchange for course credit which goes towards their grade The participants were given a questionnaire in which they had to rate the emotional expressions of different faces. The pictures were of a person’s face showing a varieties of different expressions using their eyes and mouth. These pictures were computer generated the researchers then worked out the average rating for each face within each culture.