Social control Flashcards
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- Definition of social control
- Example of where a theory has helped us to understand changes in behaviour
- Explaining the positive and negative issue os social control
- Any research to support the positive or negative issure of social control?
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What is Legitimate power?
Belief that the person has the formal right to make demands and expect others to be compliant
What is reward power?
The person has the ability to compensate (reward) another person for their compliance
What is Expert power?
Based in the person’s high level of skills and knowledge (experts in their field)
What is referent power?
The result of a person’s perceived attractiveness, worthiness etc
What is coercice power?
The believe that a person can punish others for non compliance
What is informational power?
A persons ability to control the information that other needs to accomplish something?
Who names all the powers of the therapist?
French and Raven
What are some positive forms of social control in social psychology?
Reducing prejudice – superordinate goals, boosting self-esteem, jigsaw classroom
Maintaining stable society using agency theory (police) ACT (closely supervised care in the community) Understanding how/why people obey someone in authority/uniform (crowd control – SIT; police in uniform, S &J)
What are some negative forms of social control in social psychology?
Reducing prejudice – superordinate goals, boosting self-esteem, jigsaw classroom
Maintaining stable society using agency theory (police) ACT (closely supervised care in the community) Understanding how/why people obey someone in authority/uniform (crowd control – SIT; police in uniform, S &J)
What are some postive forms of social control in cognitive psychology?
CBT (Anger management)
Understanding of memory in court situations Brain damaged patients
What are some negative forms of social control in cognitive psychology?
Manipulation of memories (e.g. false memory syndrome – Loftus was able to get pps to remember seeing Bugs Bunny in Disneyland.
Manipulating episodic memories Bain damaged patients
What are some positive forms of social control in biological psychology?
Reducing physical aggression from becoming social aggression (Brendgen)
Reduction in aggression (e.g. fish oil tablets – Raine, amygdalaotomies, chemical castration) Drug addiction Drug therapy
What are some negative forms of social control in biological psychology?
Pre-frontal lobotomy (historical)
ECT (historical) Chemical castration Pre-emptive screening for behaviours
What are some positive forms of social control in learning psychology?
Treatment using SD, flooding, aversion therapy, TEP
Prison Censorship & the watershed Use of positive role models in the media
What are some negative forms of social control in learning psychology?
Power of therapist – unequal relationship open to abuse
Conditioning someone to behave in a particular way Aversion therapy & TEP Advertising & store cards that reward loyalty Censorship
What are some positives uses of social control?
SD, flooding – phobias
Public health methods promoted via CC (association with positive outcomes)
What are some misus of social control?
Conditioning can be used for advertising / persuading society to buy products
Flooding
Fear of rats could be a form of long-lasting control (as Albert withdrawn and so no follow up)
What methodology was used in Watson and Rayner?
W & R – methodology – done on one boy. Findings and associated treatments may not be appropriate for all.
Empirical methods not subjective
Credible & scientific – valid
Capafons support
What is some positive use of social control in Baddeley?
Led to the understanding of effective learning and revision techniques.
What is some methodology used in Baddeley?
Lab experiment – not generalisable, high internal validity, low ecological validity, reliable, ethical
What is a positive use of social control?
Jigsaw method
Super ordinate goals in workplaces
Increasing contact in communities
What is a misues of social control?
Facilitation of conditions needed to cause prejudice
Create real or imagined competition between groups (e.g. scarcity of jobs)
What is the methodology used in Sherif?
Field study
Sample
SOG didn’t work first time round
Good external validity
What is the positive use of social control in Raine?
May lead to innovative treatments (e.g. omega 3)
Interventions put in place to prevent serious crimes such as murder
Benefit of society?
What is a misues of social control in Raine?
Could be used for screening
Potential labelling
Potential for discrimination (e.g. in employment)
What methodology was used in Raine?
Difficulty in isolating a single brain structure results in erroneous / subjective conclusions
PET scans may cause stress
Sample size / validity etc
Issues with validity of original research
What is a positive use of social control in Rosenhan?
Highlights the impacts of labelling
Has resulted in improvements in ICD, DSM and psychiatric institutions.
What is a misuse of social control?
Mistrust of the psychiatric community
Use of mental illness label for discrimination (e.g. Employment)
Medical insurance payouts to doctors.due to excess labelling
What methodology was used in Rosenhan?
Covert pp observation – high in ecological validity, GRVE
