Conformity & Obedience Flashcards
Name the 3 different types of conformity
Compliance
Identification
Internalisation
Who found that participants conformed more to Maths answers when they were unconfident in their own Maths ability, supporting ISI?
Lucas et al
Who found that people were more likely to reuse their hotel towels when simply told other people did, supporting NSI?
Schutz et al
Who repeated Asch’s study in 1980 with engineering students and found that only ONE student conformed in 396 trials?
Perrin and Spencer
Name the 3 main variations of the Asch study
Group size
Unanimity
Task difficulty
Name the 3 main situational variables researched by Milgram
Proximity
Location
Uniform
Who found that students blamed the ‘experimenter’ when being showed the Milgram study, supporting the agentic state theory explanation of obedience?
Blass and Schmitt
Who found that you are more likely to obey a guard than a milkman, supporting the legitimacy of authority explanation of obedience?
Bickman
Who conducted interviews with Milgram’s fully obedient participants and found that they scored high on the F scale, supporting the authoritarian personality explanation of obedience?
Elms and Milgram
Name the 3 explanations of obedience
Dispositional
Situational
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