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~Psychology~
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- 1What is conformity?Accepting influence to gain a favourable reaction from those around them.
- 2Who tested 32 groups of 6 women with 2 confederates and 4 participants in their study?Moscovici et al (1969).
- 3Explain the conversion theory?People are motivated to reduce conflict and examine a minority argument; seeing why it differs from their own.
- 4What is meant by informative social influence?Going along with a group of people as you genuinely believe that they're right with their point of view.
- 5Who conducted a study which consisted of showing a series of lines to participants?Solomon Asch.
- 6What is meant by internalisation?Accepting influence because the attitude's content is consistent with your own.
- 7Describe a statistic from Asch's study?He found that 36% of people conformed by giving incorrect responses.
- 8Define McCarthyism.A period of strong anti-communist feeling (America) where people were afraid to be different (1950's).
- 9A statistic from Moscovici's findings?8% of participants agreed the slides were green.
- 10What is compliance?Exposure from a majority and adopting behaviour from a group.
- 11Kelman's 3 types of conformity?Compliance.
Internalisation.
Identification. - 12What Milgram concluded after his experiment?Ordinary people can become very obedient to authority.
- 13Describe obedience?Someone acting in response from a direct order from an authority figure.
- 14Who tested the importance of situational factors on people?Zimbardo.
- 15Explain internal validity.When an experiment achieves what it originally set out to do. (Realistic experiment).
- 16Who supported Milgram and found that nurses can administer a fake drug to patients?Hofling et al.
- 17What Bickman found out?People are more obedient if they are taking orders from a person in a uniform.
- 18Define external validity.How research is able to be generalised to surroundings over time.
- 19Explain 'agentic shift'?When a person sees themselves as an agent carrying out someone else's wishes.
- 20What Smith and Bond found?Conformity is a product of social conditions (some groups likely to conform than compared with others).
- 21What are the roles of 'buffers'?The participant is protected from seeing the consequences of their actions on the victim.
- 22Orne and Holland argued that...Milgram's study lacked in internal validity (seen as unrealistic).
- 23What is normative social influence?Acting like the majority but without accepting the point(s) of view.
- 24What is meant by 'Locus of Control'?Aspect of one's behaviour- people differ in their beliefs when outcomes are in their control or not.
- 25What is social change?Society adopting a new behavior/set of beliefs that are then seen as the 'norm'.
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