AP Psychology Class Assignment Name: __________________

Forty Studies That Changed Psychology Period: _________________

Directions: Read the Article on Pages 11-17 and answer the following questions in complete sentences.

Complete the Journal Article Citation

Title: More Experience=Bigger Brains: Brain Changes in Response to Experience

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Date:

Abstract:

Journal, Pages:

1) What is the essential question researchers are trying to answer with this research?

2) Who were the three colleagues at the University of California-Berkeley who undertook a series of 16

experiments over 10 years?

3) What type of non-human subjects did they use?

4) What are the 5 justifications why rodents had been chosen as subjects?

a

b

c

d

e

5) What was Rosenweigs theory about animals implicit in the research?

6) What were the 3 conditions that the male rats were randomly assigned to?

A

B

C

7) How long did the rats live in the various environments?

8) What did the researchers do/measure during the random autopsy(s) to compare the rodent brain (s)?

9) What is acetylcholinesterase?

10) Explain the results of the study.

11) What happened to the results when the experiment was replicated?

12) Which part of the brains changed the most?

13) Where the findings statistically significant?

14) What happened to the synapses of the rats?

15) After 10 years of research, what conclusion did Rosenzweig, Bennett, and Diamond conclude?

16) What were the 4 criticisms of the research?

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B

C

D

17) What did the authors suggest would be some of the benefits of this research?

18) What related research followed the work of Rosenzweig, Bennett and Diamond?

19) Explain Sneddons pig research. Why was it important?

20) What is the Mozart Effect? Explain.

21) Why do you think this research is significant to the body of psychological knowledge?