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Intro to Psychology — Experiments

Famous psychological experiments and their findings

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psych_lab_rat 15 terms Dec 8, 2025
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Milgram Experiment
Showed people would administer shocks under authority pressure; obedience study
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Stanford Prison Experiment
Students adopted roles of guards and prisoners; showed power of social roles
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Pavlov's Dog
Classical conditioning: dogs salivated to bell after pairing with food
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Skinner Box
Showed operant conditioning: rewards and punishments shape behavior
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Bobo Doll Experiment
Bandura showed children imitate aggressive behavior they observe
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Asch Conformity Experiment
Subjects gave wrong answers to match group consensus; conformity study
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Little Albert Experiment
Watson conditioned a baby to fear a white rat via classical conditioning
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Harlow's Monkeys
Baby monkeys preferred cloth 'mother' over wire mother with food; attachment study
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Rosenhan Experiment
Fake patients admitted to psychiatric hospitals; showed diagnostic labeling dangers
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Stroop Effect
Interference when reading color words printed in different colors; automatic processing
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Kitty Genovese Case
Led to bystander effect research; witnesses failed to help during attack
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Fundamental Attribution Error
Overestimating personal traits vs. situational factors when explaining others' behavior
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
People with low competence overestimate their ability; low metacognitive awareness
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Placebo Effect
Patients improve after inactive treatment due to belief in its effectiveness
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Confirmation Bias
Tendency to seek information that confirms existing beliefs