Conformity

Question 1

what is the purpose of Milgram’s experiement?

Answer 1

Milgram wanted to find out “how many people would continue to deliver shocks to another person while knowing that they could get seriously hurt”

Question 2

what percent of Milgram’s participants delivered the maximum level of shock

Answer 2

65%!!!!

Question 3

how many of the 40 participants delivered the maximum shock

Answer 3

26

Question 4

how many participants stopped before maximum

Answer 4

14 people

Question 5

true or false all participants weren’t debriefed after the experiment

Answer 5

true the participants were debriefed

Question 6

what percentage did mil gram think would not stop giving shocks

Answer 6

1-3%

Question 7

autonomous state

Answer 7

in this state individuals make decisions based on their own ideas beliefs and experiences

Question 8

agentic state

Answer 8

in this state individuals give up their own responsibility deferring to those of higher status

Question 9

agentic shift

Answer 9

movement from the autonomous state to the agentic state.

once shift occurs individuals give up their responsibility and follow orders without considering the consequences or whether the request is appropriate

diffusion of responsibility means that individual no longer monitors their own behavior

Question 10

what was milgrams explanation behind his participants’ behaviour

Answer 10

-milgram believed that his participants were “just following orders” and did not consider themselves responsible

Question 11

internal validity

Answer 11

• measure what is intended to measure

- Milgram’s experiment was designed to measure obedience and authority

Question 12

external validity

Answer 12

the extent to which the results can be generalized to other settings people and times

ex Milgrams results could not be applied to other settings as his lab experiment bore little resemblance to real life situations where obedience is required

Question 13

briefly describe the solomon asch experiment

Answer 13

a subject was placed at a table with 10 actors that worked for asch and were told to give the right answer. the purpose was to see how much the actors would influence the subject.

Question 14

how many of the subjects from asch’s experiment gave the wrong answers at least half the time

Answer 14

30%

Question 15

how many people gave correct answers in aschs experiment despite the pressure

Answer 15

1/4

Question 16

external validity

Answer 16

Asch experiments had been repeated numerous, times with students of various ages and non-students

Question 17

conformity

Answer 17

changing one’s behavior or attributes to follow the beliefs,rules or guidelines of other people in a group

Question 18

What are the two types of conformity

Answer 18

Normative conformity

An informational conformity

Question 19

Defined normative conformity

Answer 19

Occurs due to desired to be liked

Question 20

Define informational conformity

Answer 20

Conformity that occurs because of the desire to be correct this set of conformity is more likely to occur when we view others as our source of information

Question 21

What is normative conformity more likely to occur

Answer 21

When the group sizes three or more
when the group is important
when one has no allies in the group

Question 22

What is informational conformity most likely to occur

Answer 22

When the situation is ambiguous
when the situation is a crisis
When other people are experts

Question 23

What factors affect conformity

Answer 23

Status location 
personal responsibility 
responsibility of authority figure 
status of authority figure 
proximity 
peer support