Zimbardo&Milgram
Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment revealed the power of the situation and how people can conform to ___ ____.
Social roles
This scenario shows this situational variable of obedience:
"Why didn't you just stop the experiment?"
"I don't know... the researcher was standing right beside me so I felt like I couldn't."
Proximity
Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Thích Quảng Đức, burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the Vietnamese Roman Catholic government. This is an example of this principle of minority influence.
Committment
A woman who enters a new doctor's office for the first time watches as patients stand up every time a buzzer goes off in the office. At first she looks on in confusion. But after a while she begins to conform to their behaviour because she believes they know better. This is an example of ___.
Informational social influence
Zimbardo's experiment was more likely to be obeyed because it was completed in Stanford University compared to a no-name university. This shows what variable of obedience?
Location
This psychological state, described by Milgram, occurs when individuals carry out the wishes of an authority figure, reducing personal responsibility.
Agentic state
This scenario shows this variable of obedience:
"Why did you complete the experiment!? You could've killed someone!"
"I don't know. The researcher guy just kept saying to continue and he looked all official so..."
Uniform
Teachers of PRS rallied together to advocate for higher pay which they all agreed was necessary and fair. This is an example of ___ consistency.
Synchronic consistency
The Asch Line experiment is an example of this type of situational variable affecting conformity.
Unanimity
This effect explains how a minority belief grows into a majority belief over time
Snowball Effect
This ethical issue was common to both Milgram’s and Zimbardo’s studies, as neither participants in the experiments were fully aware of what they were consenting to.
Lack of informed consent
The origin of the authoritarian personality is said to stem from this type of parenting style.
Harsh and strict parenting
Nemeth (1986) argued that extreme consistency and repetition of an idea can be seen as rigid and dogmatic. We should therefore use the ___ principle of the minority influence to compromise with the majority.
Flexibility
This explanation of conformity suggests that people change their behavior because they want to be accepted and liked by the group.
Normative social influence
People are more likely to conform if they can't figure out how to solve the problem on their own or are unsure of how to proceed. This variable affecting conformity if known as __.
Task difficulty
Zimbardo's prison experiment had to be terminated after only six days because of extreme emotional and physical distress. The original plan was to last this many days.
14 days
In 1950, this researcher and his team created the fascism scale.
Adorno et al. (1950)
Nelson Mandela publicly advocated against the apartheid for several decades. This is an example of __ consistency.
Diachronic consistency
All of Vinny's friends are psyched for the upcoming football game and he gets excited with them, but secretly he doesn't actually like football. This is an example of ___ type of conformity.
Compliance
This theory explains the extent to which individuals believe they can control the events in their lives
Locus of control
This percentage of participants in Milgram's original experiment continued to administer the maximum shock (450 volts) to the learner.
65%
Milgram and Elms (1966) conducted a post-experimental interview on individuals who were completely obedient in the Milgram experiment. These participants scored very high on the F-scale which means ___.
They have an authoritarian personality.
In this 1969 study, subjects were asked to look at blue-coded slides and asked to identify them as either green or blue. When confederates consistently said the wrong answer, the subjects would also give the wrong answer. When confederates were inconsistently giving the wrong answer, subjects would be more likely to give the correct answer.
Moscovici et al.
When we conform to a group's attitudes, behaviour and beliefs and believe it both publicly and privately e.g.) religious conversion
Internalisation
This term refers to the psychological effect where participants take on roles that align with the expectations of those roles, often leading to unexpected behaviors; mob behaviour
Deindividuation