AIMS FOR NAT 5

CONFORMITY; aim for Ashes study

Ash tested whether social pressure would result in people denying something they could quite clearly see to be true

His aim was to investigate whether people would conform to others incorrect estimates, even if the task was easy

CONFORMITY: aim for mori and arai

This study aim to replicate Asch’s experiment without the need for actors to ensure that nobody was acting un naturally

It’s also included both male and females, unlike ashes thus contributing contributing to our understanding of individual differences

SLEEP AND DREAMS: The aim for dement and kleitman

To find the link between dreams and sleep stages

To investigate the relationship between estimates of the duration of dreams and the actual duration of the dreams

To find out if I movement in rem sleep were connected to the content of the dream

SLEEP AND DREAMS: aims of little hans study

Freud wanted to provide evidence for his controversial Oedipus complex

The oedipus complex is a theory that children experience and unconscious feeling of desire for the opposite sex parent and jealousy and envy towards the same sex parent

When he was approached by a friend whose son suffered from a severe phobia of horse Freud decided to see if the boys behaviour fitted his theory

PHOBIAS: aims for the reseller and Diaz study

Reisler and Diaz were interested in genetic inheritance after working with poor people living in inner cities were cycles of drug addiction, psychiatric illness and other problems after duty to re occur in parents and children

They wanted to understand whether there was a genetic reason why these problems continued through generations

They tested this by studying genetic inheritance in laboratory mice they wanted to see whether mice would genetically inherited the fear of a particular smell

PHOBIA: aim little Albert study

Watson and Rayner aim to provide experimental evidence for classical conditioning of emotional responses in infants

Could young child be classically conditioned to have a phobia of a neutral stimulus?

NVC: aims foe ekman and Friesen

To find out whether facial expressions are universal in other words, are they nature or nurture

NVC: yuki et al aims

The researchers wanted to show if how we interpret facial expressions is a product of our culture and socialisation