PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Four Loko, Observer-Expectancy Effect, Developmental Psychology
11 Apr 2013
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A developmental psychologist may look at the four loko effect by looking at whether there is a predisposition to drinking alcohol. Alcoholism runs through families so some people may have an increased chance of becoming an alcoholic. In university of california, a longitudinal study is occurring in which they are tracking alcoholism across families. One group of people will have a very high effect less likely to become an alcoholic. Other group will have low effect can naturally tolerate it and is more likely to become an alcoholic. First-born children are usually like a third parent, are usually more invested in by parents, etc. In developmental psychology, experimenter bias can occur as the experimenter"s face is visible. The experimenters took the exact same image and flipped it upside down so it no longer looks like a face. They waited for the baby to be delivered, sometimes had to wait over hours and saw baby before his own grandparents.
