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What is obedience?

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Comply with the orders of an authority figure

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What is an authority figure?

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Someone with more power and control then another

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What is conformity?

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Matching the behaviour of others in order to fit in

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What is compliance?

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Going along with the majority, even though we privately do not agree

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What is normative social influence?

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Compliance, because of the need we need to fit into a group

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What is internalisation?

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Going along with the majority because we do not know how to behave in the situation

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What is informative social influence?

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Conformity because we do not know how to behave

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What is identification?

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Temporarily adopting behaviours of role model or group

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What is deindividuation?

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Loss of personal self-awareness and responsibility in a group

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What are three types of conformity?

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Compliance
Internalisation
Identication

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What is the bystander effect?

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We fail to help someone in need

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What are situational factors?

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Features of a situation that influence whether or not we intervene in an emergency

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What is personality factors?

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Features of an individual that influence how likely there to intervening an emergency

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What is diffusion of responsibility?

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When we believe others will help so we pass the responsibility onto them

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What is pluralistic ignorance?

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When we interpret the situation according to others reactions

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How does the situational factor noticing the event affect the bystander intervention?

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Enlarge codes, we are less likely to notice an emergency situation

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How does the situational factor cost of helping affect bystander intervention?

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We may harm ourselves while helping someone

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What are situational factors that affect bystander intervention ?

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Diffusion of responsibility
Noticing the event
Pluralistic ignorance
Cost of helping

19
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What are personal factors affect bystander intervention?

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Competence
Mood
Similarity

20
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What is competence in personal factors affecting bystander intervention?

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If we are trained enough to help, we are more likely to help

21
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What is mood in personal factors affecting bystander intervention?

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Less likely to intervene if help another if they are in a bad mood

22
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What is similarity in personal factors affecting bystander intervention?

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If we are similar to a person in need, we are more likely to help

23
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How does deindividuation and conformity explain crown behaviour

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  • deindividuation = loss of personal self in a group
  • conformity = copy behaviour of others in the group
24
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How does obedience explain crown behaviour

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If leader gives instructions, everyone listens of lower power

25
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What are ways to prevent blind obedience to authority figure?

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Familiarity of the situation = if you don’t know a situation, we follow orders because don’t know how to behave

26
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What was the aim of Piliavin subway study?

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  • how quick someone would help in an emergency
  • behaviour in a natural environment
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What about the participants of Piliavin subway study?

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4450 men and women
(55% white, 45% black)

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What was the procedure of Piliavin subway study?

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  • drunk man carrying a bottle of alcohol and fell over
  • ill man with a cane fell over
  • 2 female confederates recorded everything
  • 103 trials in total
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What were the results of Piliavin subway study?

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  • 62/65 trials, victim carrying a cane helped victim after 70 seconds
  • 9/38 trials, victim who was drunk helped victim after 70 seconds
  • 21/103 trials, 34 people left the critical area (close proximity to victim)
30
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What were the conclusions of Piliavin subway study?

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  • same gender preference
  • same race preference
  • larger groups more likely to offer help
  • men were more likely to help (cost of helping for women)
31
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What were the strengths of Piliavin subway study?

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  • high ecological validity as it was in a natural settings (subway)
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What were the weaknesses of Piliavin subway study?

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  • unethical as people didn’t know they were being observed
33
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What was the aim of the Zimbardo Stanford Prison experiment?

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  • investigate prisoner guard conflict in a stimulated prison environment
34
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What about the participants of the Zimbardo Stanford Prison experiment?

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  • 22 selected due to a newspaper and volunteering
  • each payed 15 dollars a day
  • all male
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What was the procedure of the Zimbardo Stanford Prison experiment?

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  • prisoners dressed in a white frilly smock dress and had a identification badge
  • guards dressed in beige military uniforms with a baton
  • prisoners were arrested by real officers
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What was the results of the Zimbardo Stanford Prison experiment?

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  • verbal aggression got worse after time
  • study stopped after 6 days
  • many prisoners displayed signs of depression and anxiety
37
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What was the conclusion of the Zimbardo Stanford Prison experiment?

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  • both guard and prisoners conformed to their role
  • uniforms deindivuated them = change in behaviour
38
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What was the strengths of the Zimbardo Stanford Prison experiment?

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  • the prisoner or guards were not acting and there for conformed to their role and didn’t fake act
39
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What was the weaknesses of the Zimbardo Stanford Prison experiment?

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  • unethical = prisoners verbally abused and left scarred
  • lacked generalisability = only done on males
40
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What is society?

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Group of people in a community

41
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What is a social issue?

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A social problem that affects a community of people

42
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What is culture?

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Set of traditions, beliefs and values shared by a group of people

43
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What is an individualistic culture?

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  • culture emphasises independence
44
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What is a collectivistic culture?

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  • work together

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