SOCIAL INFLUENCE Flashcards
Milgram baseline procedure
Confederate exprimentor and learner and participant was teacher. :Learner had to remember word list and if they were wrong they had an electric shock.
milgram situational variables
- location
- proximity
- uniform
location variable milgram
run down building. Obedience dropped to 47.5%.
uniform variable milgram
experimentor wore everyday clothing obedience dropped to 20%
proximity variable milgram
- Teacher and learner in same room dropped to 40%.
- teavher forces learners hand 30%
- when experimentor left and gave instructions over phone dropped to 20%
Name the study supporting uniform situational variable MILGRAM
BICKMAN 3 confederates dressed in 3 outfits ; suit and tie, securtity guard and milkman
Name the study… low internal validity damand characteristics milgram
ORNE+HOLLAND due to extra minipulation of variables ps may have worked out it was fake and showed demand characteristics
situational variables obedience
- legitimacy of authority
- agentic state
agentic shift
shift from autonomous state to agentic state
milgram what % continued to 450 volts
65%
where was the original milgram experiment?
Yale university
legitimacy of authority
more likely to obey people who we percieve to have authority over us. This authority is justified by indiviudals position of power within a social hierachy.
consequences of legitimacy of authority
is that some people are granted the power to punish others eg. police and dictators. We learn to accept authority from childhood from parents initially and then teachers and adults.
hofling et al
nurses obeyed doctors due to their legitimacy of authority and authorised drugs at a higher dose 95% obeyed
hofling advantages
- field study
- unaware they are in study
authortarian personality definition
adorno argued was especially suspectible to obeying authority members. Submissive to those of higher status