Home›Open QuestionsCategoryOpen Questions20 entries. Click any to see everything it connects to.BrowseCompareCompare At A Past YearEnter a year to compare these entries as the atlas records them at that moment. Leave it empty for the present. A year before the common era is entered with a minus sign, so 44 BCE is minus 44.Show This YearSelect all 20Are Ainsworth's Strange Situation attachment classifications culturally universal, or do they reflect Western caregiving norms?Open Questions3 linksCan psychoanalytic claims about the unconscious be falsified?Open Questions2 linksCan the three types of cognitive load (intrinsic, extraneous and germane) be reliably measured and empirically distinguished from one another?Open Questions2 linksDid all eight of the pseudopatients David Rosenhan described in his 1973 "On Being Sane in Insane Places" study genuinely exist and undergo the hospitalizations as published?Open Questions2 linksDid Chomsky's critique alone cause the cognitive revolution?Open Questions2 linksDid the Stanford Prison Experiment reveal a genuine, spontaneous psychological effect of institutional roles, or did the guards' abusive behavior result substantially from Philip Zimbardo's own coaching and demand characteristics rather than emerging naturally from the prison situation itself?Open Questions2 linksDo existential therapy approaches produce measurable clinical benefit, or does the evidence differ sharply by which existential tradition is being tested?Open Questions2 linksDo intrinsic, extraneous and germane load measure genuinely distinct constructs?Open Questions2 linksDoes Maslow's hierarchy of needs reflect a genuinely universal structure of human motivation, or is it culturally specific to individualistic Western societies?Open Questions2 linksDoes positive psychology's model of human flourishing generalize beyond individualistic Western societies, or does it primarily reflect a culturally specific view of well-being?Open Questions2 linksDoes Spearman's g reflect a genuine unitary cognitive ability, or is it a statistical artifact of overlapping mental processes?Open Questions2 linksDoes the Asch conformity effect reflect a durable feature of human group behavior, or was it substantially a product of the cultural moment (1950s America) in which it was measured?Open Questions2 linksDoes the Implicit Association Test measure a stable trait or situational noise?Open Questions2 linksHow much of psychology's published literature will ultimately replicate, and which reforms actually fix the underlying incentives?Open Questions2 linksHow strong was the original Hawthorne effect, really?Open Questions2 linksIs Carl Jung's well-known paranoid-schizophrenic patient case, which he used as evidence for the collective unconscious, authentic as reported?Open Questions2 linksWere the Robbers Cave experimenters themselves an uncontrolled third group?Open Questions2 linksWhich child was actually filmed as "Little Albert" in Watson and Rayner's 1920 conditioning experiment?Open Questions2 linksWho was the infant known as Little Albert in Watson and Rayner's 1920 conditioning experiment?Open Questions2 linksWhy did facilitated communication persist for years after it was discredited?Open Questions2 links