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Stroop
using numbers. Also using words associated with colours. Colour backgrounds
with colour words in black (name colour) or neutral words
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Age
and Stroop
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Analyse
personal adverts male/female, gay vs straight
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Music
beats and pulse rates or perception of room temperature
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Smarties
into a jar. Guess the number of Smarties and see whether the estimate changes
when the average is known. Conformity
effect.
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Changing
a single descriptive word and perception of a person
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Sport
offering extrinsic rewards vs intrinsic to see whether this affects performance
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Age
and Leeper’s age, actual age or how old one feels.
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Colour
of background and memory
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Self
esteem/locus of control and motivation Internet tests
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Criminal
profile with picture (scruffy ugly vs neat beautiful) and length of sentence.
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Two
sports teams rate each other’s play. Tajfel.
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Music
and study, to see whether music distracts you when you study
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Position
in classroom and interaction with teacher observation.
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Questionnaire
with ticks already added or not. To see whether knowing most people believe one
thing you are likely to also agree.
Conformity
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Smokers
and cognitive dissonance
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Gender
differences and attitudes towards abnormality
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Type
A or B personality and days off school correlation
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Unbiased
article two different writers check for bias example black/white issue written
by a black person or a white person
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Emotional
language on questionnaire to see whether this causes a change in attitude. Ties in with leading questions as in Loftus
& Palmer.
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Attitude
towards health and weight correlation
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Differences
in stress smokers vs. non-smokers
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Differences
in stress and sleep
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Memory
for pictures made out of shapes. Coloured in or not
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Body
shape and ideals for men and women
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Correlation
stress levels and exercise
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correlation
GCSE and AS level scores
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acoustically
similar or dissimilar words lists when testing short-term memory
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Men
and women drivers going through amber/red traffic lights
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Caffeine
and short-term memory (only usual amount of coffee)
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Are
team sport players more outgoing than individual sport players?
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Memory
for concrete and abstract words
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Leading
question “when Darth Vader severed/removed Luke’s hand did you see any
blood?” Show movie clip.
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Identification
of emotional facial expressions males vs. females
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Correlation
between visual spatial ability and numeracy
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Gender
and egoism or extraversion
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Content
analysis body image and the magazine (for different aged women). Do magazines for older women have larger
body sizes in their photographs?
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Help
with homework “lazy” or “didn’t understand”.
This ties in with Piliavin, cane vs. drunk. One is less likely to help a lazy student than one who tried but
didn’t understand.
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Obedience
and surroundings psychology office vs. canteen. Give a maths test with a large area on the question paper
labelled do not write in this space
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Neutral
vs. negative words memory
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Driving
aggression (queendom.com) gender differences
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Global
vs. local features time taken to recognise.
Navon.
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Position
in family and academic achievement
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Cue
dependent learning two different rooms
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Visual
search similar or dissimilar targets