Home›Categories›Open QuestionsCategoriesOpen QuestionsCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextPsychology Atlas. "Open Questions." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-psychology.interactiveatlas.org/categories/open-questions-index.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextPsychology Atlas. (n.d.). Open Questions. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-psychology.interactiveatlas.org/categories/open-questions-indexCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{psychologyatlas-open-questions, author = {Psychology Atlas}, title = {Open Questions}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-psychology.interactiveatlas.org/categories/open-questions-index}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXReference and ClassificationDevelopingCross-Tradition ConnectionsComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Cross-Tradition ConnectionsContainsAre Ainsworth's Strange Situation attachment classifications culturally universal, or do they reflect Western caregiving norms?, Open Questions Well-attested Can psychoanalytic claims about the unconscious be falsified?, Open Questions Well-attested Can the three types of cognitive load (intrinsic, extraneous and germane) be reliably measured and empirically distinguished from one another?, Open Questions Well-attested Did all eight of the pseudopatients David Rosenhan described in his 1973 "On Being Sane in Insane Places" study genuinely exist and undergo the hospitalizations as published?, Open Questions Well-attested Did Chomsky's critique alone cause the cognitive revolution?, Open Questions Well-attested Did the Stanford Prison Experiment reveal a genuine, spontaneous psychological effect of institutional roles, or did the guards' abusive behavior result substantially from Philip Zimbardo's own coaching and demand characteristics rather than emerging naturally from the prison situation itself?, Open Questions Well-attested Do existential therapy approaches produce measurable clinical benefit, or does the evidence differ sharply by which existential tradition is being tested?, Open Questions Well-attested Do intrinsic, extraneous and germane load measure genuinely distinct constructs?, Open Questions Well-attested Does Maslow's hierarchy of needs reflect a genuinely universal structure of human motivation, or is it culturally specific to individualistic Western societies?, Open Questions Well-attested Does positive psychology's model of human flourishing generalize beyond individualistic Western societies, or does it primarily reflect a culturally specific view of well-being?, Open Questions Well-attested Does Spearman's g reflect a genuine unitary cognitive ability, or is it a statistical artifact of overlapping mental processes?, Open Questions Well-attested Does the Asch conformity effect reflect a durable feature of human group behavior, or was it substantially a product of the cultural moment (1950s America) in which it was measured?, Open Questions Well-attested Does the Implicit Association Test measure a stable trait or situational noise?, Open Questions Well-attested How much of psychology's published literature will ultimately replicate, and which reforms actually fix the underlying incentives?, Open Questions Well-attested How strong was the original Hawthorne effect, really?, Open Questions Well-attested Is Carl Jung's well-known paranoid-schizophrenic patient case, which he used as evidence for the collective unconscious, authentic as reported?, Open Questions Well-attested Were the Robbers Cave experimenters themselves an uncontrolled third group?, Open Questions Well-attested Which child was actually filmed as "Little Albert" in Watson and Rayner's 1920 conditioning experiment?, Open Questions Well-attested Who was the infant known as Little Albert in Watson and Rayner's 1920 conditioning experiment?, Open Questions Well-attested Why did facilitated communication persist for years after it was discredited?, Open Questions Well-attested Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year