psychological experiment
type of experiment
Iowa gambling task
psychological task thought to simulate real-life decision making
Stanford marshmallow experiment
study on delayed gratification by psychologist Walter Mischel
Little Albert experiment
experiment providing information on classical conditioning of human infantile subject
Foot-in-the-door technique
compliance tactic that involves getting a person to agree to a large request by first setting them up by having that person agree to a modest request
Oklahoma City sonic boom tests
1964 FAA sonic boom study over Oklahoma City.
Water-level task
Psychology experiment
Stanford prison experiment
controversial 1971 psychological experiment
lexical decision task
procedure used in many psychology and psycholinguistics experiments that measuring how quickly people classify stimuli as words or nonwords
Psychomotor vigilance task
psychometric test of attention
vignette
description of a situation used in studies
The Milgram experiment
series of social psychology experiments, studying obedience to authority figures
Bobo doll experiment
collective name of experiments conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961 and 1963 when he studied children's behavior after watching an adult model act aggressively towards a Bobo doll (a toy that gets up by itself when knocked down)
The Third Wave
social experiment on the spread of Nazism
Monster Study
Case Against Medical Ethics
I and Others
1971 film by Feliks Sobolev
controlled experiment
research method in psychology
MIDAS Trial
randomized controlled trial for drugs and alcohol misuse
monkey and banana problem
thought experiment
Ulcers in Executive Monkeys
1958 article by Joseph V. Brady
Virtual reality cue reactivity
computer-enhanced methodology
Two-factor theory of emotion
psychological theory
Eriksen flanker task
set of tests in cognitive psychology
Web Experimental Psychology Lab
World Wide Web-based psychology research platform
natural experiment
in psychology
Le Jeu de la Mort
2009 film
Wizards Project
Research project on detecting lies
Concord Prison Experiment
Psychological experiment including prison inmates and the effects of psychedelics
Marsh Chapel Experiment
1962 experiment about psilocybin’s role as entheogen in religious people
open field
experimental animal test
speech shadowing
technique of speech repetition
implicit-association test
psychological experiment
Pygmalion effect
phenomenon whereby others’ expectations of a target person affect the target person’s performance
open field test
maze test in which an animal is placed in an open chamber
Allais paradox
apparent violation of the predictions of expected utility theory
Genetic Studies of Genius
written work by Lewis M. Terman
language deprivation experiment
isolating infants from normal language
Tail suspension test
Animal behavioural test
Metallic Metals Act
fictional legislation
Oddball paradigm
psychology research paradigm
Pit of despair
device used by Harry Harlow to study rhesus monkeys