PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Singaporean Nationality Law, Threshold Of Pain, T-Shirt

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Oliver Michael Hardt

Document Summary

Psyc100 lecture 5: complex behaviour can emerge out of small set of principles, factors influencing experiments, rat sensitivity . More pain tolerance when there is a female experimenter. Same effect applied with a t shirt sensitivity of mice to pain threshold was lower when male experimenters were present. Rats reacted differently when other male rats were there rats didn"t express much pain to ensure they"re not attacked (like a reflex) Demand characteristics: in human experiments, people actually try to predict behaviour of experimenter want to know what"s going on, what is the purpose of the experiment. This means that experimenter actually determines the subject"s behaviour. > 2\3rd"s of volunteers prepared to shock when 1) responsibility was taken by someone else 2) don"t want to upset the authority. Representativeness: if female students were told they do great, they perform well but if told they aren"t great they will actually perform worse (demands of situation have already influenced the participants)