MindVARK | A-Level Psychology 🧠

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Bandura et al. (1961) tested the prevalence of imitative learning in children by exposing them to behaviour demonstrated by an adult model, and then placing them in a novel situation without the model present.

Listen to this series of comprehensive podcasts which cover the core studies from the OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) syllabus, covering themes, debates, ethics, methodology and more.

*Background - 0:03

*Aims - 1:09

*Sample - 1:54

*Methodology - 2:23

*Procedure - 3:21

*Results - 5:22

*Conclusions - 6:36

*Evaluations - 7:08

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Chaney et al. (2004) wanted to apply the principles of behaviour reinforcement and Operant Conditioning to improve the adherence of children who had asthma in using their inhalers.

Listen to this series of comprehensive podcasts which cover the core studies from the OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) syllabus, covering themes, debates, ethics, methodology and more.

*Background - 0;03

*Aims - 1:05

*Sample - 1:20

*Methodology - 1:57

*Procedure - 2:24

*Results - 4:08

*Conclusions - 4:44

*Evaluations - 5:20

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Simons and Chabris (1999) investigated the phenomena of ‘inattentional blindness’ (also known as ‘Change blindness’), whereby an observer often fails to perceive an unexpected object or event, even if it appears in the area that the observer is observing, if their attention is focused on another object or task, or the object is not the centre of interest in the scene.

Listen to this series of comprehensive podcasts which cover the core studies from the OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) syllabus, covering themes, debates, ethics, methodology and more.

*Background - 0:04

*Aims - 1:46

*Sample - 2:22

*Methodology - 2:55

*Procedure - 3:35

*Results - 6:32

*Conclusions - 8:01

*Evaluations - 9:12

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Moray (1959) investigated the "Cocktail Party Effect" and the phenomenon of selective listening, to discover the factors which can affect people’s attention in dichotic listening tasks.

Listen to this series of comprehensive podcasts which cover the core studies from the OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) syllabus, covering themes, debates, ethics, methodology and more.

*Background - 0:04

*Experiment 1 - 2:14

*Experiment 2 - 4:38

*Experiment 3 - 7:16

*Conclusions - 9:06

*Evaluations - 10:05

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Grant et al. (1998) investigated whether context-dependent memory could be found in a school setting – and more specifically, whether people who listened to background noise while studying for a test would perform differently compared to people who studied with no background noise.

Listen to this series of comprehensive podcasts which cover the core studies from the OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) syllabus, covering themes, debates, ethics, methodology and more.

*Background - 0:05

*Aim - 0:41

*Sample - 0:58

*Methodology - 1:27

*Procedure - 2:02

*Results - 3:19

*Conclusions - 4:37

*Evaluations - 5:11

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Loftus and Palmer (1974) investigated the extent to which eyewitness testimony can be influenced by variables other than a person’s original memory of an event.

The researchers were interested in investigating what these variables could be, and how they have the ability to change people’s eyewitness testimony in relation to a traffic accident.

Listen to this series of comprehensive podcasts which cover the core studies from the OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) syllabus, covering themes, debates, ethics, methodology and more.

*Background - 0:05

*Aims - 1:54

*Sample - 2:21

*Methodology and Procedure - 2:36

*Results - 4:58

*Conclusions - 6:22

*Evaluations - 8:30

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Levine et al. (2001) investigated whether factors, such as cultural values, economic factors, and the pace of life, would impact on helping behaviour in relation to non-emergency situations.

Listen to this series of comprehensive podcasts which cover the core studies from the OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) syllabus, covering themes, debates, ethics, methodology and more.

*Background - 0:05

*Aims - 0:44

*Sample - 1:11

*Methodology - 1:25

*Procedure - 3:30

*Results - 5:02

*Conclusions - 6:20

*Evaluations - 7:27

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Piliavin et al. (1969) devised an experiment which took place on the New York subway to find out how people would react if they saw someone collapsing on a train.

Listen to this series of comprehensive podcasts which cover the core studies from the OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) syllabus, covering themes, debates, ethics, methodology and more.

*Background - 0:04

*Aims - 1:34

*Sample - 2:45

*Methodology - 3:09

*Procedure - 4:22

*Results - 6:08

*Conclusions - 8:02

*Evaluations - 10:04

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Bocchiaro et al. (2012) were interested in studying the process of disobedience between individuals and authority, and the extent to which people will become whistle-blowers when dealing with an unethical request.

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*Background - 0:04

*Aims - 0:49

*Sample - 1:09

*Methodology - 1:47

*Procedure - 2:40

*Results - 6:53

*Conclusions - 10:23

*Evaluations - 12:35

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Milgram (1963) investigated the extent to which obedience would be shown by participants who were told by a figure of authority to administer electric shocks to another person.

Listen to this series of comprehensive podcasts which cover the core studies from the OCR A-Level Psychology (H567) syllabus, covering themes, debates, ethics, methodology and more.

*Background - 0:03

*Aims - 1:22

*Sample - 1:50

*Methodology - 2:29

*Procedure - 2:59

*Results - 7:49

*Conclusions - 10:05

*Evaluations - 12:14

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