Social Influence

Question 1

NSI strength

Answer 1

-research support Asch
-when people were askes why they conformed they said it was due to a need to be liked (NSI). Writing answers decreased conformity to 12.5%
-Supports NSI
-increase internal validity

Question 2

ISI pos

Answer 2

-reseacrh support Lucas
-Harder maths questions have more people conforming
-ISI occurs when people arent certain on the correct answer
-increase EV

Question 3

Asch neg

Answer 3

-Lacks temporal validity Spencer and Perrin
-anticommunist Ameriaca made people scared to not conform
-The results are reliable due to confounding variables
-decreases the intenal valididty

Question 4

Asch neg

Answer 4

-Possible demand characteristics
-15+ people decreased conformity due to demand characteristics
-The experiments findings are no longer valid
-Decreases internal validity

Question 5

Zimbardo pos

Answer 5

-Lack of demand characteristics
-After a few days, prisoners ceased to talk about their personal lives.
-Believed the situation was real so couldnt of shown demand characteristics so the study is reliable
-increases the iv

Question 6

Zimbardo neg

Answer 6

-Contradicting research BBC replica
-Prisoners rebelled social roles and rioted
-This is explained by social learning theory and not social roles
-This decreasesthe internal validity of the study

Question 7

Zimbardo pos

Answer 7

-Real worl dapplication in American prison system
-Educated the public on how social roles can influence our behavior theis led to a change in the prison system with a division of juvanile and adult prisons and the remova; of the beehive method
-This improved the QoL for many prisoners
- usefullness

Question 8

Milgrams pos

Answer 8

-research support Holding
-22 nurses asked by a ‘doctor’ over the phone to administer a potentailly lethal dose to a pateient , 21 obeyd
-normal people follow figures of authority
-increase EV

Question 9

Milgrams strength

Answer 9

-Its replicatable
-French Tv show had 80% of people obeying
-Theory can be applied cross culturally
- generalisable

Question 10

Situational explenations for obedience

Question 11

situational explenations for obedience

Question 12

dispositional factors for obedience pos

Answer 12

-Research support Milgram and Elms
-people who went up to 450v were higher on the f scale
-Adornos claims that high F scales correlate with obedience
-increases the internal validity

Question 13

dispositional explenations for obedience neg

Answer 13

-personality cant be the only explenation for obedience
-pre ww1 germany was still filled with anti semmetic and racist people
-that cant be explained with them all having the same personality
-decreases the external validity

Question 14

resistance to social influence pos
socail support

Answer 14

-research support Albrecht
-pregnant teens have a buddy who prevent them from the peer pressures of smoking
-social support
-increases external validity

Question 15

resistance to social influence pos LoC

Answer 15

-Research support
-Holland redid Milgrams study and found that 14% more externals went up to 450v
-Supports that externals are more obedient
-increase internal validity

Question 16

Resistance to social influence neg LoC

Answer 16

-contradicting research Twenge
-American obedience studies over the last 40 years have seen an increase in external personalities but a decreas in obedience
-external = obedience
-decrrease external validity