Intro to Behavioural Research + Types of Conformity

Question 1

What is an example of a practical application?

Answer 1

Treatments for mental disorders

Question 2

What is a hypothesis?

Answer 2

A prediction of what you think your results are going to be

Question 3

How will you know what to expect to find?

Answer 3

By looking at previous research results

Question 4

“A prediction of what you think your results are going to be”

What am I?

Answer 4

A hypothesis

Question 5

A researcher is carrying out a piece of research and wants to make a hypothesis.

How would they know what to expect to happen?

Answer 5

By looking at previous research results

Question 6

Name 5 techniques Psychologists could use to study behaviour

Answer 6

• Experiments
• Observations
• Interviews
• Questionnaires
• Brain Scans

Question 7

What does the term “sample” refer to?

Answer 7

The people who take part in a study

Question 8

What does the term ‘practical applications’ mean?

Answer 8

How research findings can be used to help people

Question 9

If research findings can be used to help people, we say that this study has…

Answer 9

Practical applications

Question 10

What key term can be used to describe the people who take part in a study?

Answer 10

The sample

Question 11

What is meant by “internal validity”?

Answer 11

Is a study measuring what it intends to

Question 12

What is meant by the term ‘external validity’?

Answer 12

Can the findings be generalised outside of the study to different places or people

Question 13

What 2 things are going to affect the external validity of a study?

Answer 13

• Where the study takes place
• Who takes part in the study

Question 14

On what day of the week will you study Research Methods with your teacher, every week?

Answer 14

Friday

Question 15

What topic will you be learning about every Friday?

Answer 15

Research Methods

Question 16

“A study IS measuring what it intended to”

This study has high…

Answer 16

Internal validity

Question 17

“A study is NOT generalisable to other people”

This study has low…

Answer 17

External validity

Question 18

What is meant by ‘social influence’?

Answer 18

When peoples opinions, emotions, or behaviours are affected by others

Question 19

What is meant by the term ‘conformity’?

Answer 19

Changes in an individuals behaviour or beliefs as a result of a real or imagined group pressure

Question 20

Name 3 types of conformity

Answer 20

• Compliance
• Identification
• Internalisation

Question 21

Which type of conformity is the LEAST permament

Answer 21

Compliance

Question 22

Which type of conformity is the MOST permament?

Answer 22

Internalisation

Question 23

What two types of conformity are stronger than compliance?

Answer 23

• Identification
• Internalisation

Question 24

What two types of conformity are weaker than internalisation?

Answer 24

• Compliance
• Identification

Question 25

Which type of conformity involves public change ONLY?

Answer 25

Compliance

Question 26

Which type of conformity can involve public and POSSIBLY private change?

Answer 26

Identification

Question 27

Which type of conformity always involves public AND private change?

Answer 27

Internalisation

Question 28

Why does identification take place?

Answer 28

Because membership of that group is desirable

Question 29

Where does internalisation take place?

Answer 29

In public and private

Question 30

Where does compliance take place?

Answer 30

In public

Question 31

Where does identification take place?

Answer 31

In public and possibly private

Question 32

What happens when individuals showing compliance are in private?

Answer 32

They revert back to their original behaviour

Question 33

An individual reverts back to their original behaviour and beliefs in private. What type of conformity is this?

Answer 33

Compliance

Question 34

An individual maintains their conformity in both public and private, no matter if the group is present. What type of conformity is this?

Answer 34

Internalisation

Question 35

What does an individual do with the attitudes of the group, when showing internalisation?

Answer 35

They accept these into their own cognitions (thoughts)