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Psychology Unit 1 - Conformity
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- 1What is internalisationwhere you internalise an idea and agree with it
- 2what is identificationpublicly agreeing but not always personally but to conform to a particular group
- 3What is Compliance?To publicly go along with it but privately disagree
- 4Normative social influenceEmotional responce
- 5informational social influencecongnitve based on thought processes
- 6ASCH'S line study AO1-123 guys in a room in groups of 6/8
-they were placed 2nd to last and had to say which line matched the original
- unambiguous task
-18 trials / confeds lied on 12 of them
=75% conformed (NSI)
pps gave wrong answer 36.8% of time - 7ASCH's line study AO2-Time of research - during McCarthyism (red scare) so people didn't want to stand out
-Artificial task- lacking ecological validity
-mundane realism (dull and pointless)
-Demand characteristics
-ethical issues (deception) - 8ZIMBARDO Stanford prison experiment AO1-male students were recruited to act as either guard or prisoner.
-both parties had uniforms
- in 2 days, prisoners rebelled against harsh treatment.
-stopped after 6 days rather than 14 cause prisoners got depressed/anxious etc. and one guy was on hunger strike.
- one released on first day after showing psychological trauma and 2 on day 4. - 9ZIMBARDO Stanford prison experiment AO2-high internal validity - control over variables
-ethical issues
-observer bias (ZIMBARDO was the governor)
-lack of support for findings- the BBC, Reicher and Haslam, did the same study and didn't find the same thing.
BUT= Abu GHRAIB shows that it does happen.
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