Classic Experiments
In Bandura's classic experiment on social learning and aggression, this was the name of the inflatable doll.
What is Bobo.
This substance was used by our class to make models of the brain.
What is play-doh?
This is the type of research study that we did in pairs at the beginning of the year.
What is a correlational study?
This animal was the subject of Pavlov's experiments.
What was a dog?
When we had to judge the gradient of a scent by sniffing 5 different concentrations, this was the fragrance in the cups.
What is lavender?
In the Milgram experiment which focused on the social construct of obedience, subjects were told to administer this to another individual.
What were electric shocks?
This area of the brain is sometimes not fully developed in human males until age 25.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
If you were studying whether eating a nutritious breakfast improved your time running a mile, the breakfast would be which variable?
What is the independent variable?
This behavior was done naturally by the animal when eating and so was called the unconditioned response.
What is salivation?
We used these two foods to test whether we could differentiate color from taste.
What are Fruit Loops and Skittles?
This California University was the site of the famous prison role-playing experiments.
What is Stanford University?
This brain structure is responsible for emotional experience.
What is the amygdala?
In Renee and Scarlett's research, they looked at the correlation between this variable and intelligence.
What is hair color?
When the animal heard a bell, which had been paired with food, it began salivating to the bell. The bell was then called this.
What is the conditioned stimulus?
The artist Escher provided some examples of this visual phenomenon which deceives the eyes.
What is an optical illusion?
Harry Harlow used this type of animal in his famous experiments on attachment to show that maternal bonds were much more than just nourishment.
What are rhesus monkeys?
This separates the two brain hemispheres and allows communication between them.
What is the corpus callosum?
Erin and Karina looked at the correlation between how hard a subject could kick a soccer ball and this variable.
What is the subject's weight?
Skinner focused his research on this type of animal which he taught to press a lever to get food.
What is a rat?
We learned in our labs that these two senses are very closely linked.
What are smell and taste?
In the controversial "Little Albert" experiment, Watson and Raynor conditioned a 9 month old baby to be afraid of this animal by pairing it with a loud noise.
What is a rat?
This brain surgery was used years ago as a "cure" for mental illness.
What is a lobotomy?
Alex and Alexis hung out in the Stu and investigated the correlation between time spent in the Stu and this other variable.
What is the amount of money spent?
Skinner's learning theory was called this type of conditioning.
What is Operant Conditioning?
This is the fancy name for the awareness of the position and movement of the body (hint: we learned this when walking lines blindfolded.)
What is proprioception?