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Conformity Booklet One Flashcards

1
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What is conformity?

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A change in a person’s behaviour when faced with real or imagined pressure from a person

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What is internalisation?

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Changing your behaviour to fit a wider social group because you have internalised those beliefs and think they are your own

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What is compliance?

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Correcting your behaviour to fit a wider social group despite your own private thoughts

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What is identificiation?

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Changing the way you act to fit a set of social norms, like a specific position in society.

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What is Informational Social Influence (ISI)?

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An individual who conforms and changes the way they act based on the information gained from or about the wider social group

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What is Normative Social Influence (NSI)?

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When am individual conforms or changes the way they act based on apparent social norms and expected behaviour

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What is majority influence?

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When a person changes their attitude, actions and beliefs to fit in with a larger group

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What is a confederate?

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A ‘non-participant’ who is working for the experimenter to answer in a specific way.

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9
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How many male students were involved in the Asch experiment?

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123 male students

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Asch experiment was known as a task of what?

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Visual perception

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How many participants in turn called out which of three lines matched the standard line

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7-9

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12
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How many people were genuine and where were they placed?

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One and at the end

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On how many of the 18 trials did the confederates give an incorrect answer?

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12/18 trials

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What % of the time did the real pp conform to the majority?

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33%

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15
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What % of real pp conformed at least once ?

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75%

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16
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What % of real pp conformed every time?

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5%

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17
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In the control group how much % actually made a mistake?

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1%

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What conclusion was drawn from asch’s research?

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When pps were interviewed, the majority said they conformed due to NSI but some also conformed to ISI too

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What are the two strengths of Asch’s study ?

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High internal validity and high internal reliability

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What is internal validity?

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Control variables are carried out so a cause and effect can be established

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What is internal reliability?

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A consistent method which can be easily repeated.

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What are the 4 weaknesses of Asch’s study?

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Lacks ecological validity, possible demand characteristics, lacks temporal vaidlity and gender bias

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What is ecological validity?

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Not relevant to real life

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What is demand characteristics?

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An artifical setting - the individual can change their behaviour due to this.

25
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What is temporal validity?

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It’s out dated and may not work again/show same results

26
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What is gender bias?

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Where one gender is only favoured so there is a lack of population validity.

27
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What were the Asch’s variations?

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Size of the majority, unaminity of the group and difficulty of the task.

28
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What did Asch do to make the tasks more difficult?

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He made a difference between the lines much smaller so the ‘correct’ answer was less obvious.

29
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What happened to conformity when the task was more difficult?

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Conformity Increased

30
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When the group was unanimous, what happened to conformity?

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Increased

31
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Levels of conformity decreased to what % when a pp dissented from the majority (correct answer)?

A

5%

32
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Conformity dropped to what % when another pp gave a different incorrect answer?

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9%

33
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How does the size of the majority effect conformity?

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There is little conformity when there is less confederates, increased to 30% when majority of 3. Then after 3 plateau

34
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What was the aims for zimbardos SPE study?

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To test the situational versus dispositional explanation of behaviour

35
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What did zimbardo firstly set up in the basement of the psychology department of Stan ford University?

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A mock prison

36
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How many student volunteers were selected as emotionally stable?

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24

37
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How was the pps allocated to the role of guard and prisoner?

A

Randomlly

38
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Prisoners were given what to wear?

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A loose smock

39
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Prisoners were identified by what?

A

Numbers

40
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The guards had their own uniform, a baton, handcuffs and what else?

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Mirrored sunglasses

41
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The uniform created a loss of identity called what

A

De-individuation

42
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The guards were told they had to do what over the prisoners?

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Control

43
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Could the guards cause physical harm? Yes or no

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No

44
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Within two days of zimbardos experiment, the prisoners did what?

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Rebelled

45
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Did the guards become harsh to the prisoners? Yes or no

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Yes

46
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Once the rebellion was put down what happened to the prisoners?

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The became subdued, depressed and anxious

47
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A prisoner went on what that lead him to being released and what signs did he show?

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Hunger strike and signs of psychological disturbance

48
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Zimbardo ended the study after how many days instead of the original 14?

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6 days

49
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What did zimbardo conclude that both the prisoners and guards did?

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They conformed to their social role

50
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What explanation of behaviour was supported in Zimbardos experiment?

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Situational

51
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What were the strengths of zimbardos SPE?

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Moderate ecological validity and moderate internal validity

52
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What were the weaknesses of Zimbardos SPE?

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Ethical issues, possibility of demand characteristics, lacks ecological validity, lacks interns validity and possible investigator effects

53
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Asch’s research links to NSI, give the reasons

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Those who maintained private opinion but ‘went along’ with the group. Conformity decreased with presence of an ally.

54
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ISI links to Asch’s research, how?

A

Those who ‘doubted their own eyes’ and thought everyone else must be right. Conformity Increased with difficulty

55
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A weakness of Asch’s research is that it was artifical, explain why

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Pps knew they were being studied so potential of demand characteristics

56
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A strength of Asch’s research is that it had controlled lab conditions, explain how

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Pps were limited to 7-9 each experiment and there was 1 genuine pp and was done inside a laboratory

57
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One strength is that there is research support for NSI, explain how

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Asch interviewed pps after, told him they were self conscious on giving the correct answer, conformity decreased (answers given privately) no normative group pressure.

58
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However it is hard to separate ISI, explain how?

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When Asch added a dissenting pp conformity decreased. They work simultaneously as pp could not conform as dissenter acts as social ally (NSI) or that the dissenter convinces pp that they are correct (ISI)

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