Archive for April, 2021

Kitty Genovese

April9

Hello and welcome to the last “Psychology Experiments” blog! For today’s topic,I found a more dramatic type of experiment done in 1968 by John Darley and Bibb Latané. It is known as the Bystander Effect. It all started years after the brutal murder of 28 year old Catherine “Kitty Genovese”.  On March 13, 1964, Kitty […]

Visual Cliff Illusion

April2

For this week’s passion blog, I wanted to focus on the developmental aspect of psychology. In 1959, psychologists Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk wanted to find out more about depth perception. Specifically, they wanted to test if infants are naturally born with depth perception or whether it’s a learned behavior. In order to carry this […]


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