Bocchiaro - Social Area Flashcards
(56 cards)
What is one option a person can make when they are ordered to obey unjust authority?
BACKGROUND
- Disobey
What is the other option that involves reporting wrongdoing to higher authorities?
BACKGROUND
- A phenomenon known as whistleblowing
Specifically, what three things were not known?
BACKGROUND
- Who are the people that disobey or blow the whistle?
- Why do they choose the challenging moral path?
- Do they have personal characteristics that differentiate them from those who obey?
What is a paradigm? (2 Bps)
BACKGROUND
- A model or pattern for doing something
- A set of standardised procedures to manipulate behaviour and observe the consequences
How was Milgram’s paradigm used in Bocchiaro’s study?
BACKGROUND
Authority figures requesting immoral actions of participants
What did Bocchiaro’s study aim/want to build on Milgram’s study? (2 BPs)
Option to take___
Gave them a chance to___
BACKGROUND
- Wanted to provide participants the options to take personal action against an unjust system
- Gave them the chance to obey, disobey or blow the whistle against authorities who encourage immoral behaviour
What is social power?
Influence on an individual
THEORIES
The influence an individual has to change another’s thoughts, feelings or behaviours.
How can social power be presented in society?
THEORIES
Individuals in authority, legitimate or illegitimate, have social power to influence those with lower social status within their social hierarchy
What does a human’s independent behaviour/defiance involve?
THEORIES
Involves the rejection of social influence/power to behave in accordance with one’s own internal attitudes, morals and beliefs
What experimental method was used? (3 BPs)
RESEARCH METHOD
- Scenario study
- Not a lab study since there was no IV
- High levels of control - lab
Describe the study in 3 bullet point
What was it about?
What did it consist of?
What where the researcher’s wanting to see about P’s - Would they obey?
And/OR what would they do if they didn’t obey?
PROCEDURE
- Consisted of describing hypothetical unethical study on sensory deprivation
- Seeing whether P’s would obey a request to write a statement about another fellow student
- Whether they would blow the whistle by filling in a form about the ethics of a study
What was the aim of Bocchiaro’s study
Aimed to replicate Milgram’s findings of a wide gap between people’s predictions of their own and others’ degree of (dis)obedience when contrasted with the actual behavioural outcomes in his experiment
What were the researchers also interested in? (2)
What did it lead them to collect?
AIM
The researchers were interested in understanding the Individual and situational nature of variations in (dis)obedience
It led them to collect a variety of personality and valuable information from their participants
How many participants were in the experimental condition? (2 BPs)
Give genders too
SAMPLE
- 149 undergraduate students
- 96 women, 53 men
How many were removed from the study and why? (2 BPs)
SAMPLE
- 11 removed
- suspicion
How many participants were in the comparison group?
SAMPLE
138
How many participants were in the pilot study?
SAMPLE
92
Where did the study take place?
SAMPLE
VU University, Amsterdam
What was the sampling technique used?
ST
Self-selected sample
How were participants recruited?
ST
Flyers were posted in the campus cafeteria
How much money would participants receive/anything else?
ST
- 7 euros
- course credit
What was the purpose of the 8 pilot tests? (2 BPs)
PROCEDURE
- to ensure the procedure was credible and morally acceptable
- Served to standardise the experimenter-(authority) behaviour throughout the experimental period.
What was the comparison group given a detailed description of?
PROCEDURE
The experimental setting
What questions were the comparison group asked? (2 BPs)
PROCEDURE
- What would you do?
- What would the average student at your university do?
