Experimental psychology is the work done by those who apply experimental methods to the study of psychology and its underlying processes. It employs both human participants and animal subjects to study sensation, perception, memory, cognition, learning, motivation, emotion and other related topics through controlled experimentation.
Facts
Central QuestionExperimental psychology asks how mental processes and behavior, in humans and animals, can be studied through controlled experimental methods, applying techniques such as manipulated variables, measurement and statistical analysis across topics from sensation to social behavior. 1 Key DebateCritical psychologists associated with the Frankfurt School argue that experimental psychology treats humans as entities independent of the cultural, economic and historical context in which they actually exist, producing what they see as an inaccurate portrait of human nature. 1 Connections
Associated With
Founded the first formal psychology laboratory, generally credited as the founder of experimental psychology.
Includes
Source Wikipedia: Frederic Bartlett
Source Wikipedia: Body transfer illusion
Source Wikipedia: External Inhibition
Source Wikipedia: Eyeblink Conditioning
Source Heuristic (psychology) - Wikipedia
Source Ironic process theory - Wikipedia
Source Wikipedia: Loran Nordgren
Source Mamie Phipps Clark (Wikipedia)
Source Missing letter effect, Wikipedia
Source Modality Effect (Wikipedia)
Source Neal E. Miller (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer
Source Stimulus control, Wikipedia
Source Wikipedia: Body transfer illusion
Source Steven Pinker (Wikipedia)
Source Stimulus control, Wikipedia
Source Stimulus control, Wikipedia
Source Zing-Yang Kuo (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Experimental psychology
Wikimedia FoundationLead section, opening sentence
Experimental psychology is the work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes.
Criticism, Frankfurt school section
Critical psychologists claim that experimental psychology approaches humans as entities independent of the cultural, economic, and historical context in which they exist.
View the Source Wikipedia: Body transfer illusion
- Includes: Rubber Hand Illusion, Article categories: Experimental psychology
Includes: Body Transfer Illusion, Lead section
Body transfer illusion is the illusion of owning either a part of a body or an entire body other than one's own, thus it is sometimes referred to as "body ownership" in the research literature.
View the SourceWikipedia: Loran Nordgren
Includes: Loran Nordgren, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Loran Nordgren, Lead section
In 2009, he was a social and experimental psychologist and assistant professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.
Wikipedia: Frederic Bartlett
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Bartlett's War of the Ghosts Experiment, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Bartlett's War of the Ghosts Experiment, Lead section
Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett FRS (20 October 1886 - 30 September 1969) was a British psychologist and the first professor of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge.
Heuristic (psychology) - Wikipedia
Includes: Heuristic (Psychology), Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Heuristic (Psychology), Lead section
Heuristics (from Ancient Greek εὑρίσκω (heurískō) 'to find, discover') is the process by which humans use mental shortcuts to arrive at decisions.
Missing letter effect, Wikipedia
Includes: Missing Letter Effect, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Missing Letter Effect, Lead section
In cognitive psychology, the missing letter effect refers to the finding that, when people are asked to consciously detect target letters while reading text, they miss more letters in frequent function words (e.g. the letter "h" in "the") than in less frequent, content words.
Stimulus control, Wikipedia
Includes: Peak Shift Effect, Lead section
In behavioral psychology, stimulus control is a phenomenon in operant conditioning that occurs when an organism behaves in one way in the presence of a given stimulus and another way in its absence.
Includes: Stimulus Control, Lead section
In behavioral psychology, stimulus control is a phenomenon in operant conditioning that occurs when an organism behaves in one way in the presence of a given stimulus and another way in its absence.
Includes: Stimulus Generalization, Lead section
In behavioral psychology, stimulus control is a phenomenon in operant conditioning that occurs when an organism behaves in one way in the presence of a given stimulus and another way in its absence.
View the SourceWikipedia: Eyeblink Conditioning
WikipediaIncludes: Eyeblink Conditioning, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Eyeblink Conditioning, Lead section
Eyeblink conditioning (EBC) is a form of classical conditioning that has been used extensively to study neural structures and mechanisms that underlie learning and memory.
Steven Pinker (Wikipedia)
Includes: Steven Pinker, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Steven Pinker, Lead section
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual.
Wikipedia: External Inhibition
WikipediaIncludes: External Inhibition, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: External Inhibition, Lead section
External inhibition is the observed decrease of the response of a conditioned reaction when an external (distracting) stimulus that was not part of the original conditioned response set is introduced.
Wikipedia: Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer
WikipediaIncludes: Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer, Lead section
Pavlovian-instrumental transfer (PIT) is a psychological phenomenon that occurs when a conditioned stimulus (CS, also known as a "cue") that has been associated with rewarding or aversive stimuli via classical conditioning alters motivational salience and operant behavior.
Modality Effect (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Modality Effect, LeadQuote, Includes: Modality Effect, Lead
The modality effect is a term used in experimental psychology, most often in the fields dealing with memory and learning, to refer to how learner performance depends on the presentation mode of studied items.
Mamie Phipps Clark (Wikipedia)
Includes: Mamie Phipps Clark, Article textQuote, Includes: Mamie Phipps Clark, Article text
Clark was the first Black woman to earn her Ph.D. in experimental psychology, which she did in 1943.
Neal E. Miller (Wikipedia)
Includes: Neal E. Miller, LeadQuote, Includes: Neal E. Miller, Lead
Neal Elgar Miller (August 3, 1909, March 23, 2002) was an American experimental psychologist.
Ironic process theory - Wikipedia
Includes: Ironic Process Theory, LeadQuote, Includes: Ironic Process Theory, Lead
The phenomenon was identified through thought suppression studies in experimental psychology.
Zing-Yang Kuo (Wikipedia)
Includes: Zing-Yang Kuo, LeadQuote, Includes: Zing-Yang Kuo, Lead
Kuo; simplified Chinese: 郭任远; traditional Chinese: 郭任遠; pinyin: Guō Rènyuǎn; Jyutping: Kuo Yam6 Yun5; 1898-1970) was a Chinese experimental and physiological psychologist.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.