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Question 5

In Blakemore and Cooper’s (1970) study of early visual experience, the researchers who recorded the kittens' behavioral responses were kept blind to whether each kitten had been raised in a horizontally or vertically striped apparatus.

Explain how this control procedure contributed to the scientific validity of the findings.

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Brain plasticity Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Brain plasticity

49 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Brain plasticity, covering Blakemore and Cooper (1970): Impact of early visual experience and Maguire et al. (2000): Taxi drivers. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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