social influence- research methods and paper 2 key words Flashcards
what does subjective mean ?
avoiding bias
research aims
a statement of what the researchers aim to find out.
hypothesis
the thing that we predict will happen and what we will test to find out.
social influence
how your behaviour is influenced by those around you.
social psychology
studies how peoples thoughts and feelings and behaviour are affected by others.
conformity types
compliance
identification
internalisation
compliance
just going along with what others are doing/ behaving in a certain way to fit in with others.
e.g. laughing at a joke u don’t find funny.
identification
conforms to the behaviours of a group because there is something they value about the group.
jenesse
1932
filled a glass bottle with 811 white beans and asked participants to estimate how many many beans.
internalisation
when a person genuinely believes and accepts a groups norm. the change is permanent. e.g. religion
aschs aim
asch wanted to examine how social behaviour/ pressure from a majority could affect from a majority could affect someones behaviour
he tested conformity using a ‘visual perception task’
aschs procedure
123 male students
placed naive parcipants in a room with 7 confederates who had agreed before hand
used a line judgement task
all had to read answers out loud
completed 18 trials and confederates gave wrong answers on 12
results
participants conformed on 36.8% on critical trials
75% conformed across all
evaluation
G- generalisabiity - how represnetitive
R- reliability- how repeatable
A- applicability- how useful
V- validity- are the results a true measure
E- ethics -is the study moral
temporal validity
a type of external validity that refers to the generalisability of a study results across time
