Held and Hein (1963) Movement-Produced Stimulation in the Development of Visually Guided Behaviour

Sensation: the process of bringing information from the external world into the internal body and brain. Perception: the process of selecting, organising, and interpreting the raw information that has been taken to the brain by your senses i.e. touch, taste, sight, sound and smell. Aim: To investigate whether kittens have to see and move to …

Loftus and Pickrell (1995) The Formation of False Memories

Aim: To investigate whether it is possible to make people form a false memory of an event that never happened to them. Method: Design: 5-page booklet – containing 4 stories (3 true, 1 false) Fourth story – getting lost in a mall. Order of events: True event False event                - A paragraph each at the …

Mann et Al (2002) Suspect, Lies, and Videotapes

AIMS: To investigate the lying behaviour of suspects in police custody – a high-stake situation that is real life so would generate real lying. PROCEDURE Two observers coded the eight behaviours. Not aware of which clips showed lies or truths Not told aims or hypotheses 1st observer = coded every clip 2nd observers = coded …

Baron-Cohen et al (2001) Reading the Mind in the Eyes

Aim: To test a group of adults with AS or HFA on the revised scale of the eyes test. This was to check whether the same deficits seen in the original study could be replicated. To test a sample of normal adults to see whether there was a negative correlation between the scores on the …

Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive psychology studies how we process information. It looks at how we input information, how we process it and how we retrieve or use it. Some psychologists believe that the brain works like a computer following the procedure of input-process/storage-output. The areas of interest include memory, forgetting, perception, language and attention. Strengths: High control: a …