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Bandura
72 children from Stanford University Nursery School (36 boys and 36 girls).
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Samuel and Bryant
252 children between the ages of 5 and 8.5 from Devon, England (divided into the 4 age groups).
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Freud
A 5-year-old boy called Little Hans who had a phobia of horses and is experiencing the Oedipus Complex.
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Thigpen and Cleckley
A 25-year-old married woman called Eve White, who was referred to therapy because of "severee and blinding headaches" and "often blackouts".
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Rosenhan
Part 1 = 8 pseudo patients (A psychology graduate student in his 20s, 3 psychologists, a paeditrician, a psychiatrist, Rosenhan himself, a painter, and a 'housewife'.
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Griffiths
60 participants (30 RG's and 30 NRG's). RG's: 29 males and 1 female, all gambled at least once per week. NRG's: 15 males and 15 females, all had used a fruit machine al least once in their lifetime, but gambled once per month or less.
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Milgram
40 males aged between 20 and 50 years of age, recruited from the New Haven area. They were obtained by responding to a newspaper and direct mail advertisement, asked for volunteers to participate in a study of memory and learning at Yale University.
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Piliavin
4450 men and women travelling in the New York underground system between 11am and 3pm on weekdays between April 15th and June 26th, 1968 (opportunity sample).
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Reicher and Haslam
15 male volunteers gained through national newspapers and leaflets (From 332 to 27 through the 3 stage process of clinical, medical and background screening; then down to 15 through ensuring a variety of ages, social class and ethnic background).
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Baron-Cohen
3 groups of participants; Group 1 - with AS: (13 m & 3f) Group 2 - Control: (25m & 25f), selected randomly from a participant list of Cambridge's general population. Group 3 - Control: (8m & 2f) with TS, from tertiary referral centre in London.
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Savage-Rumbaugh
4 apes; Kanzi, Mulika (both Bonobo chimps, Sherman, and Austin (both normal chimps). Mulika is Kanzi's sister and their mum is called Matata.
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Loftus and Palmer
Experiment 1: 45 students from Washington University (opportunity sample) Experiment 2: 150 students from Washington University (50 were asked the speed at which they SMASHED, 50 were asked HIT, and 50 weren't asked and were the control group.
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Sperry
11 split-brain patients who had a history of advanced epilepsy. Opportunity sample (as Sperry was making use of people who had undergone the procedure for medical reasons). We know that 1 was male and 1 was female, but not the gender of the other 9.
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Maguire
16 male London taxi drivers (all right handed, aged between 32 and 62 years, all had been London taxi drivers for at least 1.5 years and spent at least 2 years 'on The Knowledge') and 16 control group P's (males, right handed, 32-62 years old).
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Dement and Kleitman
9 adult participants in total (7 males and 2 females from USA). 5 were studied intensively for 6-7 nights, while only a small amount of data was gathered from the other 4 who were studied for 1-2 nights just to back up the findings from the 5 studied
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252 children between the ages of 5 and 8.5 from Devon, England (divided into the 4 age groups).

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Samuel and Bryant

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A 5-year-old boy called Little Hans who had a phobia of horses and is experiencing the Oedipus Complex.

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A 25-year-old married woman called Eve White, who was referred to therapy because of "severee and blinding headaches" and "often blackouts".

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Part 1 = 8 pseudo patients (A psychology graduate student in his 20s, 3 psychologists, a paeditrician, a psychiatrist, Rosenhan himself, a painter, and a 'housewife'.

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