Social

Question 1

Locus of Control

Answer 1

Gretchen Brandt (Supports) - she was ppt in milgram who was raised in nazi germany, and refused to go past 300V

Oliner and Oliner (Supports) - interviewed 406 Germans who had sheltered Jewish people from the Nazis and they had a high internal locus of control

Blass (1991) (Rejects) - Reviewed many studies and found no correlation between LOC and obedience

Question 2

Obedience - Gender

Answer 2

Sheridan and King (1972) (Support) - PUPPY, 100% F, 54% M

Kilham and Mann (1974) (Support) - Replicated Milgram in Australia, 40% M, 16% F

Blass (Reject) - Reviewed many studies and found no correlation between LOC and obedience

Question 3

Obedience - Culture:

Answer 3

Kilham and Mann (1974) and Edwards (1969) (Support) - Milgram Australia 28%, South Africa 87.5%

Schurz (1985) (Support) - 80% Austria Milgram

Triandis (Reject) - Affected more by rulers rather than individualist/collectivism

Milgram (Reject)

Question 4

Social identity theory:

Answer 4

Tajfel (1970) (Support) - Found that minimal groups of boys from britsol awarded their own group with points instead of sharing

Wetherall (1982) (Reject) - Found that Polynesian children were more generous to the out-group in comparison of attitudes with white children

Question 5

Social Dominance Orientation:

Answer 5

Heaven (1999) (Support) - showed that SDO was a strong predictor of negative attitudes towards women’s rights

Guimond and Damburn (2003) (Support) - They found that the maintenance of hierarchy is one of the most important goals for individuals in all societies and that SDO mediates the relationship between ingroup position and prejudice (IN FRANCE)

Rubin and Hewstone (2004) (Reject) - They argue that social dominance theory has changed its definition along with how it is measured in changing the items many times to stay as one theory

Question 6

Prejudice - Culture:

Answer 6

Minard (1952) (Support) - Black miners and white miners below ground got on, but not at the surface (norms can change)

Rogers and Frantz (1961) (Support) - immigrants in Zimbabwe became more prejudice towards the black population the longer they stayed in the country

Guimond (2012) - lowest level of prejudice found in Canada (Multicultural) and highest level of prejudice found in Germany (Assimilation)

Kleugel (1990) (Support) - Collectivism reduces racism

Al-Zahrani and Kaplowitz (1993) (Rejects Kleugel) - Saudi’s are racist

Question 7

Key Question:

Answer 7

Hofling (1966) (Support) - 95% of nurses give overdose when ordered by doctor

Jane Elliot (1968) (Support) - Brown eyed, blue eyed, created prejudice