Social - Independent Behaviour

Question 1

Define Independent Behaviour?

Answer 1

Behaviour which is not altered despite pressures to conform or obey

Question 2

2 explanations of independent behaviour?

Answer 2

Presence of a independent behaving peer

Locus of control

Question 3

Define Internal Locus of Control?

Answer 3

Outcomes within your control - determined by your hard work, attributes or decisions

Question 4

Define External Locus of Control?

Answer 4

Outcomes are outside your control, determined by fate and independent of work or decisions

Question 5

What did Avtgis discover?

Answer 5

Meta analysis that results were that people with higher internal locus of control were less likely to conform

Question 6

What did Oliner and Oliner discover?

Answer 6

Interviewed a group of Non-Jewish people who lived through the holocaust - compared 406 people and 126 of them had not hidden Jews from the Nazis - people that did showed characteristics of internal locus of control

Question 7

What did Elms and Milgram discover?

Answer 7

Investigated the background of disobedient ppts involved in the first 4 of Milgram’s experiment and found that the disobedient ppts had high internal locus of control scores