Studies Flashcards
Milgram (1963)
tested obedience- had to shock ps if they got an answer wrong
65% shocked up to 450 V
100% shocked up to 300V
Bickman
power of uniforms
asking people to pick up a bag either dressed as guard (80% obedience) milk man (40% obedience) civilian (40%)
Hofling et al
nurses in hospital obeying unknown doctor and giving a patient a drug exceeding the suggested dose
not supposed to accept orders over the phone
compared to control group who were given questionairre on what they’d do
21/22 obeyed- don’t question authority
ecological validity
reliability as easily repeated
nurses could have worked out it was fake
ethics
Sheridan + King
gave shocks to puppies
54% of males gave fatal shock
100% of females delivered a fatal shock
Asch (1951) *
line study
75% conformed at least once
NSI+ ISI
Perin + Spencer *
repeated Asch with engineering students and found lower levels of conformity
Lucas et al *
maths questions and found lower ability students conformed more
supports ISI
Zimbardo (1971) *
prison study
people readily conformed to social roles
McDermott- zim *
ps behaved as if the prison was real so good ecological validity as 90% of conversations were about prison
Rotter
idea of locus of control
sense we have about what directs events in our lives and how much control we have over our behaviour
internal (resist pressure to obey + direct their own lives) or external (things that happen are outside of their control)
Holland
repeated Milgram and measured whether ps were internal or external LOC
37% of internals didn’t continue to highest level
23% externals didn’t continue to full shock
supports LOC
Twenge et al
(meta analysis) found that people have become more resistant to obedience but more external in LOC
doesnt support LOC
Gamson et al
(social support) asked ps to run a smear campaign against an oil company
29/33 groups rebelled due to peer support, were in groups so could discuss
Adorno et al
developed F scale to measure authoritarian personality using 2000 middle class white males
Milgram and Elms
interviewed 20 people who went to full shocks in Milgram and 20 who didnt go full shock
did multiple personality tests including F scale and found high levels on F scale on full shock group + they admired the experimenter = authoritarian personality
(blind obedience to authority)
compared to people who didnt give full shocks supports Adorno
correlation not causation
Christie and Jahoda
argued F scale was politically biased as it only measures right wing ideology (heirarchy, obedience)
some extreme left and right wing ideologies have a lot in common
doesn’t account for whole political spectrum
Moscovicci
minority influence and importance of consistency
blue green slides
2 confeds saying blue whole time -consistent= 8%
2 confeds saying blue 12 times green 24 times- non= 1.25%
Nemeth
importance of flexibility in minority influence
compensation to ski lift victims
1 group minority argued for low compensation and were inflexible
1 group minority argued same but were flexible
in 1 minority had little effect compared to 2nd group where majority was more likely to compromise
Nolan et al *
energy use on a street (signs on people’s doors)
one sign said other people in the neighbourhood were reducing their consumption and other sign didn’t
bigger reduction in 1st sign condition
Baddeley
coding in STM + LTM
acoustically similar and dissimilar words
semantically similar and dissimilar words
STM- acoustically
LTM- semantically
Miller
capacity of STM = 7±2
made observations of everyday practices- around 7 eg days of the week, music scale
Peterson and Peterson
duration of STM= 18 seconds
presented a trigram and ps had to remember it whilst counting back in 3s from a certain number
each trial lasted longer time eg 3s,6s,9s,12s,15s,18s
Bahrick et al
duration of LTM= possibly infinite 392 ps aged 17-74 tested on photo recognition (1) of people in yearbook or free recall (2) of people in class within 15 years- 1= 90% accurate 2=60% accurate after 48 years- 1=70% accurate 2=30%
Atkinson and Shriffin
multi store model of memory
consists of sensory store STM and LTM
HM (case study)
had hippocampus removed in surgery
STM was same but couldn’t form new long term memories
shows evidence for separate stores (MSM)
episodic was impaired but semantic and procedural were both okay
eg he could not recall stroking a dog 30 mins prior but he still understood the concept of a dog
KF (case study)- Shallice and Warrington
had brain damage due to accident
couldn’t remember words in STM when read to him but could when he read them
poor audiotory but could process visual information normally
showing STM processed different types in different ways
doesnt support MSM
Tulving
different types of LTM
episodic- personal events from our lives
procedural- how to do things eg driving a car
semantic- knowledge of the world and general concepts eg love/animals
Clive Wearing
parts of LTM were normal and some were impaired episodic was impaired semantic was fine procedural was fine supports multiple LTM stores he could still read music and play piano
Baddeley and Hitch
working memory model
consists of central executive, phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, episodic buffer
KF
couldnt remember words read to him (phonological)
could remember words he read (VSS)
Dual task exp
more similar tasks are harder as they use the same parts of the brain/ memory and they have limited capacity
Underwood and Postman *
retroactive interference 1st group asked to learn 2 lists of words (1 list of word pairs and 1 list unrelated) eg cat-tree then cat-glass 2nd group asked to learn 1st list () both groups had to recall first list 2nd group was better
Baddeley and Hitch *
asked rugby players to recall the teams they had played
players who missed more games could remember more as they had less interference
retroactive interference
Godden and Baddeley *
context dependant forgetting
divers learnt words on land or in sea and recalled in matched or opposite context
higher recall when context was same for learn + recall