issues and debates

Question 1

ethics

Answer 1

issues of informed consent causing psychological harm and right to withdraw within obedience research
necessity of creating these conditions to study prejudice etc

Question 2

practical issues

Answer 2

when researching prejudice such as social desirability
issues with interviews/ self reports when measuring obedience
importance of sampling participants into conditions

Question 3

reductionism

Answer 3

equation in social impact theory
drawing conclusions from data drawn from self reports and interviews

Question 4

comparisons

Answer 4

issues of personality, culture, gender and situation in explaining obedience and prejudice
use of theories

Question 5

psych as science

Answer 5

controls over variables in lab experimnents can lead to replicability and reliability
bias in questionnaires can lead to issues of validity

Question 6

culture and gender

Answer 6

obedience not found to be influenced by gender
cultural differences - collectivist vs individualistic in obedience

Question 7

nature nurture

Answer 7

role of authoritarian personality and upbringing in obedience etc

Question 8

understanding over time

Answer 8

changes from milgram and replication work of burger into obedience

Question 9

social control

Answer 9

making people obey authority and socialising them into an agent state from a young age
knowledge of how to induce and reduce prejudice

Question 10

knowledge in society

Answer 10

reduction of prejudice
explaining football violence/acts of terrorism

Question 11

socially sensitive

Answer 11

prejudice links to racism and the impact of research on participants and the groups they represent.