The Psychology Blog Of Bridgwater College; a link-dump of vaguely Psychology related pictures, queries, weblinks, comments, thoughts and theories...

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Gender and Helping Behaviour (Coursework)




This one looks at similarities between males and females in terms of most psychological variables - brief reference to Eagly and Crowley on helping behaviour.

Here you can examine the effect of sex and mood on helping.

This time it's Eagly and Crowley's meta-analysis in detail.

Gender related traits and helping behaviour.

Predicting helping behaviour - focused on gender roles .

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Monday, June 25, 2007

Research for fear

There's a good write up on this link about Mineka and how she taught monkeys to fear.

http://www.loc.gov/loc/brain/emotion/Mineka.html

'Laboratory-reared rhesus monkeys do not show a fear of snakes, so this fear is not innate. After lab-reared monkeys observed for only a few minutes a wild-reared monkey reacting with intense fear to a live boa constrictor...'

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Friday, June 22, 2007

Gender & Conformity (Coursework)

There is an incredibly useful article available on blackboard for this project title. Go to the coursework resources section under AS Psychology.

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Coursework Proposal Form

In case you're bored or confused...

... you might fancy having a trial go at the coursework proposal form... here it is... this is what we'll be filling in the week i come back from Paris...

remember, you can be getting on with the first draft of your introduction while i'm away...

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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Gender and Obedience (Coursework)


Table for Milgram experiments around the world - some specify differences in results using male and female participants. Extract from a book including a section on gender differences in obedience.

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Eyewitness Testimony (Coursework)


Study from Cornell Uni showing how memory of an event can be affected by our judgment of the person involved - read on.....

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Faulty memory issues (Coursework)


More Loftus material here. This one has useful reference details too!

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Leading Questions & Eyewitness Stuff (Coursework)


Useful link to an article by Loftus. This covers loads of her own research as well as reference to a study by Harris on leading questions and the height of basketball players...

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More Cwk things


Perceptual Set - with some ambiguous figures

Change Blindness Demo - someone was thinking of doing this I think...

More Change Blindness

And even more Change Blindness links

Environmental Stressors - scroll down for an intro.

A wiki on environmental stressors - some good references

Online book on Aggression

Schemas - intro

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Some sources for Coursework


I'll add these when I find them:

Something on Gender and Conformity - you have to scroll down and look!

more on gender and conformity here and here and here and here

helping behaviour is here and here (general social psych articles/slides/powerpoints etc) and here

webpage for Elizabeth Loftus

An Abstract of a study on conformity and age

Heyer and Barrett abstract on interference and sensory modality

allport and postman schema study

bits and bobs about schemas - useful as a starting point for searches

interference - Underwood and another article on Underwood himself

more studies on interference - scroll down

the piliavin helping behaviour experiment on the subway

lots of experiments on helping behaviour

intro to helping behaviour

large article on State Dependent Memory and Forgetting

online book on memory and forgetting

fear and appearance of animals

even better on fear and appearance of animals

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Gender and Altruism (maybe Conformity/Obedience)


Here and here (a meta-study - alwasy useful) and here are some links to stuff which may be useful in a gender and bystander apathy / helping behaviour essay and can be used in a gender and conformity (etc) essay (as part of the discussion perhaps...)

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Monday, September 18, 2006

Evolutionary Psychology


This may be useful for people doing the phobias or the symmetry and attractiveness studies.

Also this on phobias and this, though it is much more complicated and in-depth. And here is a research paper on emotions and evol. psych that may be useful - but don't copy it!

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