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page 1Psychology experiments
The Milgram experiment
series of social psychology experiments, studying obedience to authority figures
Stanford prison experiment
controversial 1971 psychological experiment
learned helplessness
behavior
Rosenhan experiment
psychological experiment
Asch conformity experiments
study of if and how individuals yielded to or defied a majority group
The Third Wave
social experiment on the spread of Nazism
telephone game
game involving whispering
Stanford marshmallow experiment
study on delayed gratification by psychologist Walter Mischel
Little Albert experiment
experiment providing information on classical conditioning of human infantile subject
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)
small-world experiment
experiments examining the average path length for social networks

pseudoword
thumb | right | Cover of the October 1905 issue of Jabberwock: a Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls
A pseudoword is a unit of speech or text that appears to be an actual word in a certain language, while in fact it has no meaning. It is a specific type of nonce word, or even more narrowly a nonsense word, composed of a combination of phonemes which nevertheless conform to the language's phonotactic rules. It is thus a kind of vocable: utterable but meaningless.
Ben Franklin effect
psychological phenomenon
Rat Park
research project
Ganzfeld experiment
Pseudoscientific technique used to test individuals for extrasensory perception
Monster Study
Case Against Medical Ethics
Project Pigeon
project developed by B.F. Skinner to create a bomb guided by pigeons
breaching experiment
Sociology,social psychology experiment definition
naturalistic observation
observation of a subject in its natural habitat without any manipulation by the observer
Le Jeu de la Mort
2009 film
The Button
experimental meta-game on Reddit.com
Pit of despair
device used by Harry Harlow to study rhesus monkeys
effects of violence in mass media
research field that analyzes the degree of correlation between themes of violence in media sources with real-world aggression and violence
Behavioural despair test
test used to measure the effectiveness of antidepressants, centered on a rodent's response to the threat of drowning
Hofling hospital experiment
psychology experiment involving the administration of a fictional drug
A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière
painting by André Brouillet
respondent
A respondent is a person who is called upon to issue a response to a communication made by another. The term is used in legal contexts, in survey methodology, and in psychological conditioning.
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
non-fiction work by Milton Rokeach
lexical decision task
procedure used in many psychology and psycholinguistics experiments that measuring how quickly people classify stimuli as words or nonwords
La Borde clinic
Psychiatric clinic in France
Genetic Studies of Genius
written work by Lewis M. Terman
Psychological statistics
Use of statistics in psychology
Marsh Chapel Experiment
1962 experiment about psilocybin’s role as entheogen in religious people
Concord Prison Experiment
Psychological experiment including prison inmates and the effects of psychedelics
Visual cliff
apparatus used to test depth perception in human infants and other animal species
speech shadowing
technique of speech repetition