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Section 1 - Social Influence Flashcards

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1
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What are the different types of Conformity

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  • Compliance
  • Internalisation
  • Identification
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What is a compliance example

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Smoking to fit in whilst still thinking it’s bad

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What is a Internalisation example

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If you stop eating meat because you start believing that it’s wrong

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What is an identification example

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Individual will accept an influence because they want to establish a relationship with the group

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What is identification

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change behaviour and opinion to identify with the group

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What is Compliance

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change in behaviour but not opinion

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What is Internalisation

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change in behaviour and opinion

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What is normative social influence

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Going along with the majority without accepting their point of view

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Informational social influence

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Occurs when an individual is given evidence and changes opinion publicly and privately

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10
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What do you use to structure exam questions on a key study

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  • Aims
  • Procedure
  • Findings
  • Conclusion
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When did Asch publish his experiment

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1956

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What was the aim of Asch’s experiment

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The extent to which individuals will conform to a majority who are obviously giving the wrong answers

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Asch’s study strengths

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Crutchfield (1955) : tested a much larger quantity of subjects, similar study to Asch

Found people who conform are less intelligent and feel inferior

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What are Asch’s study’s weakness

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  • Lacks temporal validity
  • lacks ecological validity
  • Ethnocentric & Androcentric (man focused)
  • Ethical problems Eg: people got deceived
  • Gave them right to withdraw
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15
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Evaluate Perrin and Spencer 1980

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  • “child of its time” only worked in 1950 wont work now
  • Exact replication of original study, only used engineer’s, mathematicians and chemists
  • only 1 out of 396 trials someone conformed
  • reason: cultural change
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When was the Stanford prison experiment published

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1973

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17
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What was the aim in the Stanford prison experiment

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To see if people would conform to the social role they’ve been given

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18
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What was the procedure in the Stanford prison experiment

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  • Males assigned roles and became either prisoners or guards
  • prisoners were unexpectedly arrested at home
  • prisoners refereed to by their numbers
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19
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What were the situational factors in Milgrams study

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  • Proximity
  • location
  • the power of uniform
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20
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How many people were involved in Milgrams study

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40 participants

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21
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What were the participants told the study about milgram was about

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How punishment affects learning

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22
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Who was the confederate in the Milgram experiment

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The “experimenter” and the person who was getting shocked

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23
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What was the person being shocked being tested on

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His ability to remember word pairs

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24
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What would happen to the person being tested if he got a word pair wrong

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The “teacher” would shock the confederate

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25
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What voltage did the experiment start and end off at

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15-450V

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26
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How many volts did the experiment increase by each time

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15V

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27
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What did the person getting shocked do at 300V and 315V

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Pounded the wall and gave no response to the next question

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28
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What prods did the experimenter repeat if the teacher wanted to quit

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  • “It is absolutely essential that you continue”

- “you have no other choice, you must go on”

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29
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What did psychiatrists, college students and colleagues predict the voltage would go up to

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No further than 150V and only 1/1000 would give the 450V

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30
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How many participants gave the full 450V

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26/40 (60%)

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31
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What was the shock generator labelled at 420V

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Danger: severe shock

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32
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What was the shock generator labelled at 450V

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XXX

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33
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How many participants went to 300V

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everyone

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34
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How many participants stopped at 300V

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5 people (12.5%)

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35
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What did Smith and bond do

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Redid Milgrams study in Europe

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36
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What did Smith and Bond find

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80% overall conformed to give the 450V shock

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37
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Did Smith and Bond lack temperal validity

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Yes

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38
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Was Smith and Bonds experiment culturally bias

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No

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39
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How did the proximity of the teacher and learner effect the experiment

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The closer you were to each other the higher the conformity rate

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40
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What are the 2 states of consciousness

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Autonomous and Agentic

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41
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What is the agentic state

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an individual carries out the orders of an authority figure with little personal responsibility.

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42
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What is the Autonomous state

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You feel responsibility

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43
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What is confidentiality

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Don’t reveal participants real name to the study

44
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What is Deception

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Participant isn’t told the true aims of the study

45
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What is Informed

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Given info about nature and purpose of experiment

46
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What is Privacy

A

Persons right to control the flow of information about themselves

47
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What is Protection

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Participant shouldn’t feel physical or psychological effects

48
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What is Right to withdraw

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Participant can stop study if they’re uncomfortable

49
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What is the locus of control

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The feeling people have over their control of the events that occur in their life

50
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What is independent behaviour

A

resisting pressures and authoritative figures to conform

51
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What is anti/counter conformity

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When a person acts in Opposition to rules

52
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What is truly independent behaviour

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A person isn’t influenced by the actions of others

53
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What are the 3 elements of influence

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  • Consistency
  • commitment
  • flexibility
54
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What is consistency (Influence)

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When members share the same belief if they stick with it people over time. Draws attention to the minority

55
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What is Commitment (Influence)

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Engage with risky behaviour to emphasis their cause

56
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What is Flexibility (Influence)

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Adopt one point of view and accept reasonable counter arguments

57
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What is social influence

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When you change your beliefs or behaviours

58
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What is minority influence

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Members of the majority group change beliefs and behaviours due to exposure to a persuasive minority

59
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How many trials did Asch do

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18

60
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How many participants did Asch use

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123

61
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When did participants give their answer in the group Asch

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last or 2nd last

62
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What was the conformity % when confederates gave the same wrong answer Asch

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37%

63
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How many participants conformed at least once Asch

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75%

64
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How many participants didn’t conform at all Asch

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25%

65
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How many participants conformed on every trial Asch

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5%

66
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How many participants gave the right answer when alone Asch

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98%

67
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What is legitimate authority

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Someone who is perceived to be in a position of social control

68
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What is an example of agentic state

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When the German soldiers used the defence that they were just taking orders from his superior officer

69
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What keeps a person in the agentic state

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Fear that if he breaks off, he’ll appear rude and that his behaviour won’t be taken lightly

70
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What is the F scale

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a scale measuring the authoritarian traits or tendencies

71
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What is the right wing authoritarianism

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A cluster of personality variables

72
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What personality traits are in the right wing authoritarianism

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  • Authority submission

- authoritarian aggression

73
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What is internality (locus of control)

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People believe they’re responsible for their behaviour and experience

74
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What is externality (locus of control)

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Individuals tend to believe their behaviour and experience s caused by events outside of their control

75
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When did moscovici Et Al. publish his experiment

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1969

76
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How many Naive participants were there in Moscovici’s study

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4

77
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How many confederates were there in Moscovici’s study

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2

78
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What were the participants shown (Moscovici’s study)

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A series of blue slides that varied

79
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What were the participants asked to do (Moscovici’s study)

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Judge the colour of each slide

80
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What did the confederates called the blue slides

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Green repeatedly

81
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How often did the confederates call the slides green and blue in an inconsistent condition

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2/3 of the trails green

1/3 of the trials blue

82
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How many naive participants said green on the trials

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over 8% of all trials

83
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What were the guards behaviours like on the first day of the Stanford prison experiment

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They were awkward

84
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What did the guards get the prisoners to do

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perform degrading activities

85
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What were some of the degrading activities the prisoners did

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cleaning toilets with bare hands

stripping down

86
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How many prisoners were released early

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5

87
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Why were some prisoners released early

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due to extreme reactions

88
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How long did the Stanford prison experiment last

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6 days

89
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Did the guards and prisoners conform to their social role

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Yes

90
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Did the Stanford prison experiment lack internal validity give reason

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Yes as participants knew the purpose of the study

91
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Does the Stanford prison experiment lack ecological validity

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Yes as it was held in a university

92
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Why did the Stanford prison experiment have ethical issues

A

It caused psychological harm

93
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Did milgrams study lack ecological validity give reasons

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yes, people knew it was an artificial setup

94
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How did milgrams study lack internal validity

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participants knew shocks weren’t real so obedience wasn’t genuine

95
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Why was Milgrams study unethical

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deception
No informed consent
no protection from harm
Questionable “right to withdraw”

96
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Are internals more likely to become leaders or followers

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Leaders

97
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What is social change

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Society adopts new belief or way of thinking which becomes the norm

98
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What are the 2 explanations of social influence

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  • Normative social influence

- Informational social influence

99
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Evaluate: difficult to distinguish between compliance and internalisation

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The relationship between compliance and internalisation is complicated because of difficulties in knowing when each is actually taking place

100
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Evaluate research support for normative social influence

A

US research has supported the important role played by people’s normative beliefs in shaping behaviors such as smoking and energy conservation

101
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Evaluate: research support for informational influence

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Studies have demonstrated how exposure to other peoples beliefs and opinions can shape many aspects of social behaviour and beliefs

102
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Evaluate:normative influence may not be detected

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Normative influence undoubtedly has a powerful effect on the behaviour of the individual, it’s possible that they do not actually recognise the behaviour of others as a causal factor in their own behaviour

103
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What are the variables affecting conformity

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  • group size
  • The unanimity of the majority
  • The difficulty of the task
104
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Would conformity be higher or lower in a smaller group

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Lower

105
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How much did conformity increase by when there were 3 participants

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30%

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