practical Flashcards
1
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back ground?
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- Stanley milgram’s study of obedience doesn’t really look at gender differences
- Burger found no gender differences
- Kilham and mann found males werec 40% compliant and females were 16%
2
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aim?
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to identify differences in obedience levels between males and female students between the ages of 16-18 to a member of authority (teachers at school) using questionnaires to gather this information.
3
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hypothesis?
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- alternative hypothesis? = there will be a difference between male and female students obedient levels towards teachers at school. Females will be more obedient than males.
- null hypothesis? = there will be no difference between male and female student and how obedient they are to teachers at school. any difference found will be down to chance.
4
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what design was used?
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questionnaires were used which included a mixture of open and closed questions
- the questionnaires were equally distributed to 10 females and 10 males to see the impact on gender.
5
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sample?
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- 20 participants (10 male 10 female)
- all from a school in the midlands area
- age range between 16-18
- opportunity sampling was used due to everyone in the sample being at school and certain students have other responsibilities.
6
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procedure?
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- questionnaires were distributed equally to 10 boys and 10 girls
- one experimenter was looking for 10 girls and one experimenter was looking for 10 boys
- when participants were located they were asked if they would be interested in taking part in a psychological study
- each participant was given 20 mins maximum to complete the 20 questionnaire questionnaire
- they were handed in to the experimenter once they were completed (breifed and debiefed)
7
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thematic analysis?
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- common themes for males included “i’ll correct it and then change it back” or “ask whats wrong with it”
- common themes for females included “pretend to correct the uniform and then leave it once they have walked past)
