Mar 4 Power

Question 1

Social Roles and Rules
Social role:

Answer 1

how you’re expected to act in a certain situation or setting.

Question 2

Conformity

Solomon Asch’s experiment (early 50’s):

Answer 2

Changing our behavior or thoughts to match a group’s standard

Question 3

Factors that promote conformity: (2 things)

Answer 3

Factors that promote conformity:

• Group size/ unanimity/ Ambiguity of situation
• In group pressure

Question 4

Milgram’s study:
Conclusion to Milgram’s Experiment:

Answer 4

Milgram’s study: Emerged from a need to understand the Holocaust

Conclusion Milgram’s Experiment:
* Many continued to obey despite moral discomfort,

Question 5

Tendency to Obey: Contributing Factors (4 things)

Answer 5

Tendency to Obey: Contributing Factors

• High status of the authority figure
• Belief that the authority is responsible for their actions
• No clear point to stop obeying
• The gradual way obedience situations unfold (people often end up obeying extreme or harmful orders because the demands start off small and increase little by little.)

Question 6

Milgram’s study revealed:

Conditions for disobedience: (3 things)

Answer 6

Ordinary people, following authority, can become agents of aggression

Conditions for disobedience:
* The experimenter left or was replaced by a regular person
* The victim was in the same room
* The participant worked with peers who refused to continue

Question 7

What is Social Psychology? (3 things)
Example:

Answer 7

• Scientific study of how people behave social situations.
• How we’re influenced by others,
• How social pressure can affect behavior.

Example:
* People joining cults, like Jonestown, where over 900 people died in a mass suicide.