Yamamoto Chimpanzee Helping - AS Psychology

What is the Aim of the Study? (Yamamoto)

• Will conspecifics help when asked.

• Understanding helping behavior.

• If chimpanzees understand the needs of conspecifics and help

• Will conspecifics provide targeted helping if not asked

Choose the overall weakness of the study. - Yamamoto

• Low ecological validity

• Use of animals rather than humans

• Too much standardization in the procedure

• Low participant variables

Which of the following quantitative data was not produced in Yamamoto?

• First object offer

• Correct tool offers

• Ayumu's behaviour

• Upon request offer

Which of the following statements about procedure is NOT true? - Yamamoto

• The task required either a stick or straw.

• There were 48 trials for each condition.

• Each trial ended after the correct tool had been offered.

• A “request” is when the recipient poked an arm through the hole

Which conclusion is incorrect? - Yamamoto

• Chimps need to see task in order to offer the correct tool.

• Chimpanzees help but only in response to a request.

• Chimpanzees show targeted helping behavior to conspecific

• Chimpanzees give spontaneous help to conspecifics

For each condition, there were ________ trials.

• 12

• 24

• 48

• 96

Which of the statements about Chimpanzees is NOT true?

• They were reared in the primate research lab at Kyoto Univ.

• They were tested in mother/child pairs.

• Were familiarized with the 7 objects prior to the study.

• Chimpanzees give spontaneous help to conspecifics.

What was the order of the trial conditions of the independent variable? - Yamamoto

• Can see/ can't see

• Can see/ can't see/ can see

• Offer of tool/ no offer of tool

• Correct tool/ incorrect tool

Which is the dependent variable? - Yamamoto

• Target behaviour of offering the correct tool.

• Time taken for each chimp to offer the correct tool.

• The number of chimps in each trial

• The can see and cannot see conditions

What is the research design of this study? - Yamamoto

• Independent groups

• Repeated measures

• Laboratory experiment

• Field experiment