Social Psychology Flashcards
Which researcher proposed three different levels of conformity?
Kelman.
Which researcher investigated informational social influence in an ambiguous situation?
Sherif.
Which researcher investigated informational social influence in an UNambiguous situation?
What percentage of participants conformed at least once?
Asch.
75%
Who investigated identification to social groups?
Zimbardo.
Who investigated internalisation (2)?
- Moscovici.
2. Clark.
Who stated that terrorism can be a form of social change?
Kruglanski.
Who proposed the ideas of normative and informational social influence under the dual-process dependency model?
Deutsch and Gerard.
Who proposed the ideas of referential social influence?
Hogg.
Who found that those who based their decisions on general moral principles were more defiant in Milgram’s study?
Kohlberg.
Who found little conformity when an issue had moral significance?
Hornsey.
Who investigated legitimate authority?
Hofling.
Who investigated graduated commitment?
Smith and Mackie.
Who investigated the authoritarian personality?
Adorno.
Who investigated the effect of gender on obedience?
Sheridan and King.
Who investigated the power of uniform?
Bickman.
Who theorised the idea of the agentic shift?
Milgram.
What is legitimate authority?
The amount of social power held by the individual who gives an instruction.
What does the agentic shift refer to?
When the authority figure takes responsibility.
What did research about the authoritarian personality reveal?
People brought up in harsh conditions were more likely to become obedient.
When was obedience the highest in the electric shock generator experiment?
When the setting of the experiment was prestigious.
When the teacher could not see the learner.
What are the main ethical issues about research into obedience?
Lack of informed consent.
Stressful conditions.
What does ‘independent behaviour’ refer to?
When an individual sees the norms and is not affected by them.
What does ‘counter-conformity’ refer to?
When an individual purposefully does the opposite of the norm.
Which study investigated the factors that lead to rebellion?
Gamson.
