Conformity
What is conformity?
Fitting in with other people and behaving in the same way.
What was the punishment given to learners in the Milgram experiment?
Electric Shocks
What is an IV and a DV?
Independent and Dependent Variable
What is protection from harm?
Making sure that the participant is not harmed either physically or psychologically.
Who carried out the Stanford Prison Study?
Zimbardo (as Haney et al)
What is the study that shows conformity?
Asch's line study
What percentage of participants were willing to give the maximum shock to the learner?
65%
Name three experimental designs
Independent Groups, Matched Pairs, Repeated Measures
What is a debrief?
A debrief is where you tell participants the real information about the study and remind them they can withdraw and have their data destroyed.
Who were Hofling et al's participants?
Nurses
What is NSI and ISI
Normative Social Influence and Informational Social Influence
What are three situational factors in obedience?
Proximity, location, power of the uniform
What is a hypothesis?
a prediction of what will happen/the results when the experiment is run
What is the type of internal validity connected with performing an unrealistic task?
mundane realism
What are the three variables affecting conformity?
group size, unanimity and task difficulty
What are the three types of conformity?
Compliance, Identification and Internalisation
Which of the Milgram variation studies showed the least amount of obedience - 21%?
Experimenter giving orders over the phone
What is counterbalancing?
Where half of the participants do condition A then B; the other half do condition B then A
What are the three types of external validity?
Ecological, Temporal, Population
Name the parts of the burger paragraph (single whopper only)
Point
Evidence/Example
Link back to point / This matters because...
What was the average conformity rate (where participants agreed with the incorrect response) - in a percentage
33%
What is an autonomous state?
When someone is in control of their own lives.
What is the difference between confounding and extraneous variables?
confounding change with the IV, extraneaous are just annoying and don't change!
What are the six main ethical rules?
informed consent, deception, confidentiality, protection from hard, right to withdraw, privacy
What study did Reicher and Haslam carry out?
The BBC Prison Study