1.2 Social Psychology Evaluation Points Flashcards

Question

Strength and weakness for culture ( prejudice)

Answer 1

Wetheral- 8 Yr old Polynesian students in new Zealand where more generous with point allocation than Caucasian peers Suggest: culture may be a bigger factor for less prejudice Sherif - found that due to intergroup competition between boys games like tug of war led to prejudice which was show in the boys " your not eagles ur pigeons "prejudice due to competition

Answer 2

Cohrs et al Germany ( able bodied heterosexual and German national) completed questionnaire on prejudice and RWA on how they feel towards homos foreign disables = more RWA = more prejudice you are Sherif - found that due to intergroup competition between boys games like tug of war led to prejudice which was show in the boys " your not eagles ur pigeons "prejudice due to competition

Answer 3

Migrim Found that 65% ppt pressed the 450v shock button when ordered to by an authority figure Migrim counter point There was a 35% of ppl that disobeyed to press 450v when an order by authority figure agency so it doesn't explain individual differences in ppl

Answer 4

Sedikies and Jackson Zoo > order to stop leaning on the barrier More people followed the order when there was a man in uniform than without uniform ( strength) Large groups of ppl > less likely for ppl to obey After zoo keeper left ppl stopped obeying (proximity) which suggest that social impact theory does explain obedience

Answer 5

Hofling at el Found that when a doctor told nurses to administer the wrong dosage of medicine to the patients over the phone 21 out of 22 obeyed which suggest that social impact theory might be wrong as the doctor had very low immediacy but the nurses still obeyed

Answer 6

Sherif Found that when boys that were assigned to random group competed against each other in games like Tug of war there was in crease in prejudice they began to burn each others flags and call each other pigeons Suggest that prejudice does increase due to competition

Answer 7

Tajfel Found that in a group of boys randomly allocated When doing a point allocation task the groups always chose to maximise point differ with the other group Showing that's perhaps the existence of groups leads to prejudice

Answer 8

Tajfel Found that in a group of boys randomly allocated When doing a point allocation task the groups always chose to maximise point differ with the other group Showing that's perhaps the existence of groups leads to prejudice

Answer 9

Wetheral Found that in 8 years old indigenous Polynesian students in new Zealand that there were more generous with their point allocation task than their Caucasian peers so perhaps it's ethnodcentric

Answer 10

High internal validity As people that found the study distressing and people that had done any psychology class in college were screened out to ensure that which controlled any extraneous variables

Answer 11

Low mundane realism As the consequences for getting a word pair wrong as getting a shock is too intense and not realistic example If a student forget to do their homework they wouldn’t get shocked showing how the study may not apply to real life situations

Answer 12

High mundane realism The boys competed in activity such as tug of war and baseball which is reflective as real 12 old boys complete in such games Therefore increase in prejudice due to competition would help us under prejudice in social conflicts

Answer 13

High populational validity Ppts were 12 Yr old Yt middle class protestant boys from USA Finding on prejudice due to competition may apply to adults,other cultures like China or women- maybe unique to their social group