Situational Variables

Question 1

What is a situational variable

Answer 1

Features of an environment that affects the agree to which individuals yield to group pressure.

Question 2

What is the Bickman study

Answer 2

The Bickman study in 1974 investigated how uniforms affect obedience in 153 randomly selected new York pedestrians.
The confederates wore either a guard uniform or milkman uniform and ordered people to pick up bags in the street or giving people small change.

Question 3

what where the finding of the Bickman study

Answer 3

Found people obeyed the guard 80% of the time

found people obeyed the milkman 40% of the time

Question 4

Ao3 of Bickman

Answer 4

Supports mailgrams study of uniforms where perceived social roles affect conformity

• lack of control extraneous variables
• participant variables

-Internal and external volatility

Question 5

What Milgram variations are there

Answer 5

Location;
conformity dropped from 65% to 47.5% in a rundown building suggesting prestigious atmosphere affects obedience.
Culture;
conformity changed from 65% (original study in USA) to 16% in Australia (female students). Cultural bias as only developed country’s but has internal volatility.
Uniform;
Bickman study- conformity changed form 80% to 40% due to different perceived social roles from uniforms.
Proximity;
Milgram variation where student and teacher where in same room caused conformity to drop to 40%
When instructions where given over telephone fell to a further 20.5%. shows the closer the affected are the less obedient as well as the further away the instructor.

Question 6

Milgram a03 and supportive/weakening study’s.

Answer 6

Orne said the procedure aims where known so responses where fakes (Milgram agreed)
However replica study had 80% conformity as well as same anxious symptoms Milgram mentioned.

Question 7

what are the 4 situational variables

Answer 7

culture, Uniform, location and proximity