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What were the results of Asch’s original study?

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75% of participants conformed at least once and there was an overall conformity rate of 37%.

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Why was Asch’s sample criticised?

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It was white, American, middle class men

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What did the participants in Asch’s study think the aim of the experiment was?

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To look at visual perception

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How many participants were tested in Asch’s study at a time?

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In Asch’s variations, did conformity increase or decrease with an ally?

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Decrease

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What social phenomena was Asch interested in?

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Conformity

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Which was the theory that Deutsch and Gerrard proposed to explain conformity?

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Two process model with ISI and NSI

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If a person is conforming because they think the others in the room are more intelligent than them, which explanation is it?

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Informational Social Influence

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Summarise Lucas et al’s study into explanations for conformity

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They looked at task difficulty and found the harder the maths problem, the more participants conformed, showing ISI.

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Asch’s private response variation supported which explanation of conformity?

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NSI

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Name the key term for a deep type of conformity where we take on the majority view because we accept it as correct

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Internalisation

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Which type of conformity is the most superficial?

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Compliance

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Were the results of Zimbardo’s prison experiment qualitative or quantitative?

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Qualitative

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How long should Zimbardo’s experiment have lasted and how long did it last?

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2 weeks but it lasted 6 days

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Name three (groups of people) who conformed to their social roles in Zimbardo’s experiment

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Prisoners, prison guards, superintendent (Zimbardo)

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How were the prisoners and guards divided in Zimbardo’s experiment?

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They were randomly assigned roles

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How were the prisoners dehumanised in the SPE?

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Their belongings were taken away and they were referred to as numbers

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What was the aim of Zimbardo’s prison experiment?

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To look at how we conform to social roles and why there is police brutality in American prisons

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What were the conclusions of Milgram’s shock experiment?

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That we obey authority figures instructions

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Give two ethical concerns of Milgram’s shock experiment

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Participants were deceived as they believed they were giving real shocks and they may suffer psychological harm as they believed they were hurting someone.

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What percentage of people went to 300V and 450V in Milgram’s study?

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100% continued to 300v and 65% went to 450v.

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What was the aim of Milgram’s experiment?

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To look at obedience to authority figures and to find out why so many people obeyed Hitler’s orders during WW1.

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What was the job of the ‘experimenter’ in Milgram’s shock experiment?

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To say phrases encouraging the participant to continue administering shocks

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What were participants asked to do in Milgram’s experiment?

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They were asked to teach a ‘student’ words and when they couldn’t remember them, to give increasingly severe electric shocks.

25
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Identify three situational variables that may affect obedience

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Location, proximity, uniform

26
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What is the possible ethical implication from Milgram’s study and variations?

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It gives an alibi for war crimes as they can say they were acting under an authority figure.

27
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Which of Milgram’s studies gave the highest obedience rate?

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His original study

28
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What type of experiment was Bickman’s experiment?

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Field experiment

29
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What did Bickman’s experiment show?

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The effects of uniform on obedience

30
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Define ‘demand characteristics’ with reference to Milgram’s study and variations

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When participants guess the aim and so their behaviour reflects what they think the experimenter wants them to do. For example, giving the maximum shock voltage.

31
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Give an example in history that shows how social-psychological factors can lead to high levels of obedience

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Hitler instructed Nazis to kill Jews and other ethnic minorities.

32
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Milgram argued that people could be in two states when it comes to personal responsibility. Name these two states

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Autonomous and agentic state

33
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Give an example of a binding factor that might have been seen in Milgram’s experiment

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Gradual commitment

34
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How does Blass and Schmitt’s study support psycho-social variables of obedience?

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They showed Milgram’s experiment to students and they said the participants were not responsible for their actions but instead the experimenter was.

35
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Which explanation of obedience tells us why a student would obey the headmaster in the playground, but not obey a sixth former?

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Legitimacy of authority

36
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How did Adorno suggest people develop an authoritarian personality?

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From childhood and strict parenting

37
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What did Adorno find through his questionnaire?

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People who scored highly on the f-scale were more obedient in Milgram’s experiment.

38
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How have people criticised the questions of the F-scale questionnaire?

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There are methodological issues as the same box can be ticked and it is also politically biased.

39
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What was the aim of Adorno’s work?

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To see why there was anti-semitism in the Holocaust and to look at personality vs obedience.

40
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Name three characteristics of the authoritarian personality

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Respectful to authority, obedient, contempt for people of lower social status.

41
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What was the procedure of Adorno’s study?

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They used the F-scale to measure the authoritarian personality.

42
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Define social support

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When there is someone else who doesn’t conform, providing a model for participants.

43
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Give contradictory evidence for the link between LOC and resistance to obedience

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Twenge et al found that in America, people have become more external and also less obedient.

44
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Define resistance to social influence

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Not being influenced by others

45
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Give supporting evidence for the link between LOC and resistance to obedience

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Holland repeated Milgram’s study and measured whether participants were internals or externals. He found 37% of internals didn’t continue to the highest shock whereas only 23% of externals didn’t.

46
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Give one example of research support for social support as an explanation for resistance to social influence

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In Asch’s experiment, when there was a non-conforming dissenter, conformity dropped.

47
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Who is more likely to resist social influence - someone with an internal locus of control or someone with an external locus of control?

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Externals

48
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How did Moscovici investigate minority influence?

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He showed participants blue slides and there were confederates saying they were green. With the consistent minority, 8.2% copied the minority whereas in the inconsistent minority only 1.25% conformed.

49
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What is the difference between minority influence and conformity?

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Conformity is complying to what other people are doing whereas minority influence is when a small number of people change the views of a majority.

50
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Give an example of real-life minority influence in history

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Views changing on gay relationships

51
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Define the snowball effect

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When a minority view becomes the majority and more and more people change their opinions.

52
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What did Moscovici’s study show?

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That a consistent minority is more effective than an inconsistent minority.

53
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Name three key factors of minority influence

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Consistency, commitment, flexibility

54
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Explain one barrier to social change

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Bashir found people were likely to resist social change as they didn’t want to be seen as stereotypes.

55
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Give research that supports the role of NSI in social change

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Nolan hung messages saying residents were reducing their energy usage and found significant reductions due to NSI.

56
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Define social cryptoamnesia

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When views change and we forget how change occured.

57
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Define social change

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When societies beliefs change

58
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What can campaigners learn from the augmentation principle?

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Showing extreme commitment is more effective in causing social change.

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