Paper 2 Flashcards
Social influence
What are the 5 main topics
Conformity
Conformity to Social Roles
Obedience to Authority
Resistance to Social Influence
Minor rift influence and Social Change
Social influence - Memory
Sensory register
Temporarily stored information
Limited capacity
Limited duration
Coded (depends on sense) e.g. auditory, visual, tactile
Social influence - memory
Short term memory
Limited capacity
Limited duration
Coding is acoustic
Social influence - memory
Long term memory
Unlimited capacity
Unlimited duration
Coding is semantic
Social influence - memory
3 types of memory in LTM
Episodic - information about events
Semantic - facts and knowledge
procedural - how to do things, cant be consciously recalled
Social influence - memory
Studies have looked at the duration of memory
Sperling
Peterson and Peterson
Bahrick Et al
Social influence - memory
What did sperling do
Lab experiment
Grid with 3 rows of letters
Shown for 0.05 seconds
Immediately recall either the whole grid or a randomly chosen row
Social influence - memory
What is Sperlings results
Ppts could only recall 4/t letters on avg
Particular row was chosen only
3 items could be chosen
