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Flashcards by katiexchar, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by katiexchar
about 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What is obedience? | Obedience refers to a type of Social influence whereby someone acts in response to a direct order from a figure of perceived authority. |
| Who participated in Milgram's study | 40 males participants aged between 20 and 50 years old. |
| What were the findings of Milgrams study? | -No participant stopped below 300 volts -12.5% stopped at 300 volts -65% continued to 450 volts -Participants showed extreme tension with 3 having uncontrollable seizures. |
| Name 2 ethical issues with Milgram's study | -Participants were not told the true aim of the experiment so they could not give informed consent -The experiment may have caused psychological harm to the participants. |
| What did Milgram tell the participants the experiment was about? | He said it was about learning through punishment |
| Why do people believe Milgram's study is not internally valid? | Because participants may have not really believed in the set up of the experiment and therefore showed demand characteristics and altered the results of the experiment. |
| who participated in the study of Hofling et al? | 22 real nurses. |
| what were the findings of the Hofling's study? | 21 out of the 22 nurses were easily influenced into carrying out the orders. |
| What can we conclude from the findings of Hofling's study? | People are very unwilling to question 'authority'. |
| what was the aim of Bickman's study? | Investigate the social power of uniform. |
| Who participated in Bickman's study? | 153 pedestrians on a New York street |
| what were the findings of Bickman's study | People obey the person in the Police/ Security guard uniform most, then civilian, then milkman. |
| What can we conclude from the findings of Bickman's study? | Uniform has the power to make people more likely to obey simple commands. |
| Why do people say Bickman's study is more ecologically valid than Milgram's study? | The research Milgram did was lab based and participants may have changed their behaviours whereas Bickman's was field based and participants did not know they were taking part therefore there was no risk of demand characteristics. |
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