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CO2 - Social Area Flashcards

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What are the key assumptions of the social area?

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The study of how people and environments influence behavior

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What are the strengths of the social area?

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  1. wide range of practical applications
  2. Helps bring psychology to a wider audience
  3. High ecological validity
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What are the weaknesses of the social area?

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  1. not true for all of time
  2. may be socially sensitive
  3. boundaries are blurred between social and other areas
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What are the similarities between the Milgram and Bocchario?

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  1. Both Milgram and Bocchiaro conducted in a lab
  2. Both studies investigate social psychology
  3. Both studied have practical application and therefore useful
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What are the differences between the Milgram and Bocchario?

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  1. Milgrams sample was all male, while Bocchiaro was both genders
  2. Milgrams study was reductionist while Boccharios was more holistic
  3. Bocchario used pilot studies while Milgram did not
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What is the theme for the social area?

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Influence of authority

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What was the aim of Bocchiaro?

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To study people who disobey and who whistleblow and to understand the person situational factors involved with disobedience. Bocchiaro also aimed to replicate milgram’s findings to show a similar trend

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What was the IV in Bocchiaro?

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Therte was no IV

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What was the DV in Bocchiaro?

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If the participant was obedient, disobedient or whistle blew

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What was the sample in Bocchario?

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Self selected sample
149 participants
average age of 20.8

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What is the method used in Bocchario?

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Experimenter tells participants to write an email to there friends to gather people to take part in an unethical experiment

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How else did Bocchario test participants?

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They took a personality test and was asked about there religious views

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State 3 results from Bocchario

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Obedient: 76%
Disobedient: 14%
Whisleblow: 9%

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What conculsions can be made from Bocchario?

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Behaving in a moral manner is challenging for people even when this reaction appears to observers (people in the comparison group) as the simplest path

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State 3 strengths of Bocchario

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  1. high internal face validity
  2. high internal validity
  3. high external validity
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State 3 weakness of Bocchario

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  1. Ethnocentric
  2. Bias sample
  3. It was a self selected sample it showed demand characteristics
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What ethical guildlines were broken?

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Consent was not fully informed

Harm to participants

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What is the aim of Milgram?

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The aim of the experiment was to investigate what level of obedience would be shown when participants were told by an authority figure to administer electric shocks to another person. Milgram wanted to know if Nazis in concentration camps were just following orders or acting on their free will

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What is the hypothesis of Milgram?

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Americans would not be willing to inflict pain on one another simply because they were told to

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What was the IV in Milgram?

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There was no IV

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What was Milgrams DV?

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The DV was the shock level the participant administered on the learner. However there was no manipulated variable in this experiment.

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What was the sample in Milgram?

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Volunteers were recruited for a lab experiment investigating ‘learning’. Participants were 40 males, aged between 20 and 50, whose jobs ranged from unskilled to professional, from the New Haven area. They were paid $4.50 for just turning up.

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State two results from Milgram

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100% of participants went to 300v and 65% of participants went to the full 450v.

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State a conclusion from Milgram

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ordinary people are likely to follow orders given by an authority figure, even to the extent of killing an innocent human being. People tend to obey orders from other people if they recognize their authority as morally rights and or legally based

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State 3 strengths of Milgram

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  1. Increases understanding of authority
  2. High ecological validity
  3. Uses a lab experiment, its reliability can be tested
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State 3 weaknesses of Milgram

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  1. It has a bias sample
  2. It is ethnocentric
  3. It breaks many ethical guidlines
27
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What ethical guidelines were broken in Milgram

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Deception
Protection of particpants
Debrief
Right to withdrawal

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