11) Albert Bandura: Bobo Doll Experiment
The 1960s was another decade marking massive progress in the field of psychological study, ranging from developmental studies such as Bandura’s study of social learning, or Gibson and Walk’s Visual
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12) Jean Piaget: Theory of Stages of Cognitive Development
While the behaviourist school of psychologists was busy in the US with Conditioning and examining the different types and processes of learning by testing animals in the 1930s, Jean Piaget
13) Harry Harlow: Dependency in Monkeys
Alongside the boom in social psychology experimentation, Harry Harlow, working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with rhesus monkeys as subjects, studied various phenomena occurring at infant stages in these animals.
15) Mary Ainsworth: Strange Situation Experiment
With Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation experiment, we enter a new decade in psychological studies, the 1970s. By this time, psychology had grown a lot over the last eight decades since
14) Gibson and Walk: The Visual Cliff Experiment
Gibson and Walk suggested that infants initially do not pay heed to cliffs and height drops when learning to crawl. Later after they have learnt to crawl, they become afraid
16) Walter Mischel: The Marshmallow Test
Along with Ainsworth’s study of strange situations, Walter Mischel devised a test, now a classic, to study and understand self-control in toddlers and infants, called the Marshmallow Test. It paved
17) Mamie and Kenneth Clark: The Doll Test
Before we wrap up the Developmental Psychology Studies category, one noteworthy mention is a throwback to the 1940s, Mamie and Kenneth Clark’s Doll Test. It tested racial bias in young
IV. Social Psychology Studies
As depicted by the landmark Doll Test experiments, Developmental Psychology Studies gave valuable insights into the functioning and effects of human society. A field that delved deeper into the effects
18) Kurt Lewin: Leadership Studies
Kurt Lewin conducted a study in the 1940s, analysing the effect of different types of adult leadership on groups of young boys. These are to be seen, however, as the
19) Solomon Asch: Conformity
Alongside the rapid expansion of social psychology studies, Solomon Asch conducted a novel experiment, now a renowned classic, to test how people conform to statements that are clearly, evidently wrong.
20) Muzafer Sherif: Robbers Cave Experiment
Muzafer Sherif conducted an experiment to study conflict and its resolution between various social groups. The following documentary contains clips, photographs and audios from protected archival footage, from the Cummings
21) Festinger and Carlsmith: Cognitive Dissonance
Trying to understand how and why people might offer justifications, Leon Festinger and James Carlsmith conducted extended research, and an experiment which is now a classical study, about the state