... look at the effects of tool use. Capuchin monkeys were given task of pushing peanut butter out of a tube. They found that the monkeys were quick at finding a suitable stick but tried out many unsuitable ones first. This ...

... not want to go against the views of others. To been seen as a troublesome or a nuisance. The psychological term being compliance. Perhaps the person would simply want to be accepted into a group (normative influence). There could also ...

... order to complete its life cycle and reach full maturity it must reach its definite and final host. Parasite - altered behaviour is defined as the way in which the parasite manipulates the behaviour of its intermediate host in order ...

... look at the effects of tool use. Capuchin monkeys were given task of pushing peanut butter out of a tube. They found that the monkeys were quick at finding a suitable stick but tried out many unsuitable ones first. This ...

... look at the effects of tool use. Capuchin monkeys were given task of pushing peanut butter out of a tube. They found that the monkeys were quick at finding a suitable stick but tried out many unsuitable ones first. This ...

... up the ladder of fears. This technique is known as systematic desensitisation because it involves gradually desensitising the person to the feared stimulus. This technique does not use classical conditioning alone. The therapist will encourage and congratulate the patient for ...

... moving when in fact it is stationary. Participants were placed in a darkened room in which they could see a light that was stationary. They were asked to record how far the light moved and on their own they settled ...

... influence, this is a good outcome. An example of undesirable minority influence, which results in to a bad outcome, is the influence of Adolph Hitler during the Second World War. He had a major influence on a large number of people. ...

... half of all phobics could not remember a bad experience. Dunado discovered similar results in that he found that 50% of dog phobics had not had a traumatic experience with dogs. This research is flawed in many aspects because it ...

... half of all phobics could not remember a bad experience. Dunado discovered similar results in that he found that 50% of dog phobics had not had a traumatic experience with dogs. This research is flawed in many aspects because it ...

... likely to be a couple than people rated less similarly. Murstein carried out a study into the matching hypothesis and proposes we are attracted to people who match us in terms of physical attraction this could be due to a ...

... likely to be a couple than people rated less similarly. Murstein carried out a study into the matching hypothesis and proposes we are attracted to people who match us in terms of physical attraction this could be due to a ...

... behaviours as expressive of suicidal tendencies, a death wish ("Thantos") or repressed feelings of masculine inadequacy. It was therefore proposed that people such as mountaineers were illogical, or even pathological. Indeed the legacy of this train of thought continues to ...

... and offer help when they were with other people than when they were alone. Interviews conducted with participants after the experiments discussed above indicated that one reason for people's failure to help was social influence. Many participants indicated that they had ...

... Dyadic - confronting partner with the negative thoughts. 3) Social - deciding what to do from this stage on. 4) Grave-dressing - communicating a socially acceptable account of the end of the relationship. Both of the above models give good advice on how ...

... more physically attractive students were liked more by their partners than were the less attractive students. Physical attractiveness proved to outweigh qualities such as intelligence and personality. Walster et al asked the students 6 months later whether they had dated ...

... personal responsibility there is for one individual bystander. This diffusion of responsibility explains the inhibition of helping behaviour in stage three. The second process, pluralistic ignorance, focuses on what happens when we look to other bystanders in order to decide ...

... and power are the most important factors of the relationship. Blumstein & Schwartz (1983) found that lack of power equality played a dominant role in the ending of gay and lesbian relationships, but not of heterosexual marriages. This would imply ...

... believed that seeing things from the perspective was crucial in the development of empathetic concern. If the perspective of the other person is not taken, we are more likely to experience distress without the empathetic concern that leads to helping. Cialdini's ...

... aggressive behaviour that can be triggered by a frustrating experience. A rise in temperature leads to a further rise in negative effect, but to a decline in aggression. This is thought to be because people reach a stage when they ...

... given when participants believed that other potential helpers were available. The findings from this study support the notion of diffusion of responsibility as, as suggested the more witness there were to the victim needing help, the less the participant felt ...

... put onto each of them, and so on. The more witnesses to a victim's need for help, the less anyone feels responsible. To support this, Latane and Darley conducted the 'seizure experiment', in which the participants were male undergraduates who ...

... dissolution: 1. Predisposing personal facts (bad habits or emotional instability), and 2. Precipitating factor (a factor created within the relationship). Duck also outlined a four-phase model, which he suggested is the path for relationship dissolution. The first being Intrapsychic phase, ...

... be saved. The social phase is when they tell everyone else. Now the dispute spills over into social networks of friends and family. This can be both good and bad. We need these networks for support if a couple spilt ...

... application. Research into the influences of pro-social behaviour has shown that pro-social messages that are presented alongside anti social messages need to be presented in clear contrast and for the majority of the programme. If this does not happen, children ...