Obedience and Conformity

Question 1

What is obedience

Answer 1

A type of social influence that requires the following of an order or request

Question 2

Explain conformity

Answer 2

When an individual changes their behaviour or belief in order to fit into a group

Question 3

Explain compliance

Answer 3

When an individual changes their behaviour because they are requested too. Not necessarily from someone of a senior rank.

Question 4

Define an Authority figure

Answer 4

A person whose command over others inspires or demands obedience.

Question 5

When was Stanley Milgram’s Experiment conducted

Answer 5

1963

Question 6

Explain the milgram experiment

Answer 6

Milgram gathered men of all backgrounds and got them to act as a teacher. They then shocked a student increasing the voltage by 15 from 30 to 450. They believed the student was really being shocked although he was just pretending. They were told to continue with different prompts. 26 out of 40 (65%) participants went to full voltage.

Question 7

What were the prompts in milgrams experiment

Answer 7

Please continue, the experiment requires you continue, it is absolutely essential you continue, you have no other choice you must go on.

Question 8

What variations did milgram conduct of his experiment

Answer 8

Obedience decreased from being in proximity to the learner, even further from having to touch them. It also dropped from seeing other teachers refuse or being told by another teacher to carry out the act. However it massively increased to 92% when a teacher had to tell another teacher to carry out the act. Proximity of the learner and authority figure affects obedience.

Question 9

When told to shock over the phone what was the percentage of obedience

Answer 9

21

Question 10

Detail the Jerry Burger experiment

Answer 10

He repeated the experiment in 2009 however changed the max voltage to 150. He found the same results in the modern day.

Question 11

Describe Charles k Hofling’s hospital experiment (1966)

Answer 11

Hofling asked 22 nurses over the phone to give a planted patient over the maximum amount of medicine allowed. 21 of them gave the medicine. A control group of 22 had 21 said they would not carry out the order.

Question 12

who conducted the Stanford prison experiment

Answer 12

Philip Zimbardo

Question 13

Explain the Stanford prison experiment set up

Answer 13

Zimbardo set up a mock prison for a two week study. He got 24 students to participate and split them into guards and prisoners. The prisoners were collected from their homes by police and brought to the prison. The prisoners were given numbers and the guards given sunglasses to dehumanize them.

Question 14

Explain the Stanford’s prison experiment result

Answer 14

The guards become very authoritarian and on the second day the prisoners launched a rebellion. After this the guards became very violent and abusive towards the prisoners. Restricting their basic needs and forcing them to do physical exercise as well as beating them. The experiment was shut down after only 6 days.

Question 15

Aim and conclusion of Stanford prison experiment

Answer 15

To prove that people behave is more affected by what’s outside of us then inside. Despite our morals and beliefs outside situations can overwhelm us and cause us to do things we never thought we could. According to his research he found this to be true. Anonymity and authority without limit can lead to violence. Dehumanization too

Question 16

Explain the Asch Paradigm (1950s) aims

Answer 16

Asch wanted to prove he in a group people would conform to the ideas of that group.

Question 17

Explain Asch’s procedure

Answer 17

Participants were put in a group of actors who they all believed to be other participants and asked to identify how the longest line on a sheet. 12 out of 18 tests they purposefully gave the wrong answer.

Question 18

Explain the results of Asch’s experiment

Answer 18

75% of people conformed. Bigger the group higher the rate of conformity up to 3 or 5 and more difficult tasks made conformity more likely. When other group members are more knowledgeable or powerful conformity is more likely. Conformity decreased when answers were private or when an aly was present.