Famous Psychology Experiments
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A stuttering experiment on 22 orphan children in Davenport, Iowa
What is the Monster study. After placing the children in control and experimental groups, Tudor gave positive speech therapy to half of the children, praising the fluency of their speech, and negative speech therapy to the other half, belittling the children for every speech imperfection and telling them they were stutterers. Many of the normal speaking orphan children who received negative therapy in the experiment suffered negative psychological effects and some retained speech problems during the course of their life.
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A social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases where individuals do not offer any means of help in an emergency situation to the victim when other people are present.
What is the bystander effect or Genovese syndrome?
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A study confederate pretended to feel pain from electric shocks.
What is Milgram's Study of Obedience? A study which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience.
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Philip Zimbardo
Who conducted is the Stanford Prison Experiment? A study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard.
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