mock work Flashcards
What is internalisation?
Publicly changing behaviour to fit in with the group while also agreeing with them privately. This change is normally a permanent change.
What is compliance?
Publicly and in the presence of a group the person agrees however in private the person does not agree with the view of the group this is normally a short term change.
What is identification?
Identification occurs when someone conforms to the demands of a given social role in society.
What was the revolutionary finding of Harlow’s Rhesus monkey experiment?
Contact comfort > food
What are the two memory models?
The working memory model
The multi store model of memory
What are the three types of memory?
Procedural
Episodic
Semantic
What three factors make someone more likely to conform?
- Consistency
- Flexibility
- Comitment
Define social cryptomnesia
Forgetting the cause of change
How many conformed at least once in Aschs study?
74%
Outline Asch’s line study
- 23 male American undergrads
- Room full of confedirates
- Card with one line on to be matched with line on a card with three lines on
- Confederates gave wrong answer 12 out of 18 times
- Participant conformed or didn’t
Outline Zimbardo’s study
- 21 Stanford uni students who responded to ad in newspaper
- Deemed mentally fit
- Randomly assigned to prisoner or guard
- Realistic
- Guards became brutal
- Stopped after 5 full days
Outline Milgrams study
- Milgram got 40 volunteers
- Put behind wall
- Told to ‘shock’ person on other side off a wall if the answered incorectly
- 12.5% stopped at 300V
- 65% of people went all the way to 450v labeled XXX
- Done in YALE
- 5 prompts for asking to stop
Outline Bahrick et als study
- Classmates asked to recall names of class mates after 15 years and 48 years
- After 15 years with free recall classmates could recall 60% of classmates names and 90% by photo recognition
- After 48 years 30% by free recall and 70% by photo recognition
Outline Jacobs number study
Jacobs did his digit span testing and found the average digit span to be 9.3n and letter span to be 7.3
Outliner Godden and Baddelys recall study
- Recall in two different conditions
- Underwater and on land
- Recall was 40% lower in non matching conditions
