Research for conformity / memory to remember

Question 1

Asch conformity about research about NSI

Answer 1

37% conformity

Question 2

VAC - Group Size
1 ppt + 1 confederate

Answer 2

3% conformity

Question 3

VAC - Group size
1 ppt + 2 confederates

Answer 3

13% conformity

Question 4

VAC- Group size
1 ppt + 3 confederates

Answer 4

32% conformity

Question 5

VAC - Group size
1 ppt + 4+ confederates

Answer 5

Plateaued

Question 6

VAC - Unamity
1 confederate gave correct answer

Answer 6

5.5% conformity

Question 7

VAC - Unamity
1 confederate gives wrong different answer

Answer 7

9% conformity

Question 8

VAC - Task difficulty
When task becomes more difficult

Answer 8

Conformity increases

Question 9

Conformity to social roles
Zimbardo’s mock prison research

Answer 9

People conformed to social roles

Question 10

Obedience to AF - Milgram
ppts went to 300v

Answer 10

100% obeyed

Question 11

Obedience to AF - Milgram
ppts stopped at 300v

Answer 11

12.5% stopped

Question 12

Obedience to AF - Milgram
ppts continued to 450v

Answer 12

65% obeyed

Question 13

VAO - Proximity
same room for teacher and learner

Answer 13

obedience fell to 40%

Question 14

VAO - Proximity
Teacher forced to touch electric shock

Answer 14

obedience fell to a further 30%

Question 15

VAO - Proximity
Experimenter gave instructions via telephone call

Answer 15

obedience fell to 20.5%

Question 16

VAO - Location
Location changed from prestigious Yale University to run down office

Answer 16

Obedience changed from 65% to 48%

Question 17

VAO - Power of Uniform
Experimenter wore everyday clothes

Answer 17

obedience dropped to 20%

Question 18

RTC Milgram’s research - gender bias
Sheridan & King found that ____% of women would obey in comparison to ___% of men

Answer 18

100% of women to 52% of men

Question 19

Minority Influence - Consistency
2 confederates inconsistently say blue slides are green

Answer 19

1% of ppts said blue sides are green

Question 20

Minority Influence - Consistency
2 confederates consistently say blue slides are green

Answer 20

8% of ppts said blue sides are green

Question 21

Baddeley - Research on coding (STM)
Gave ppts semantically similar/ dissimilar words and acoustically similar / dissimilar words
Ppts had to list both types of words immediately after
Which made more mistakes?

Answer 21

Acoustically similar words

Question 22

Baddeley - Research on coding (LTM)
Gave ppts semantically similar/ dissimilar words and acoustically similar / dissimilar words
Ppts had to list both types of words 20 minutes after
Which made more mistakes?

Answer 22

Semantically similar words

Question 23

Miller - Research on Capacity (STM)
Digit span - gave increased in 1 digit until ppts could no longer remember
How many digits did the majority remember?

Answer 23

5-9 digits

Question 24

Peterson and Peterson - Duration (STM)
Ppts given constant trigram to remember + three digit number to count back from in 3s. When stopped after 3 seconds, what percentage remembered?

Answer 24

80%

Question 25

Peterson and Peterson - Duration (STM) Ppts given constant trigram to remember + three digit number to count back from in 3s. When stopped after 18 seconds, what percentage remembered?

Answer 25

10%

Question 26

Bahrick - Duration (LTM) Ppts asked to remember former classmates Ppts after 48 yrs with a photo yearbook, what percentage remembered?

Answer 26

70%

Question 27

Bahrick - Duration (LTM) Ppts asked to remember former classmates Ppts after 48 yrs without a photo yearbook, what percentage remembered?

Answer 27

30%

Question 28

Retrieval Failure due to absence of cues (Godden & Baddeley) Asked ppts to learn list of words on either water or land. Then recall list on water or land. Ppts recalled inaccurately by how much?

Answer 28

40% less accuracy

Question 29

Misleading information - Loftus and Palmer How fast did ppts say the car was going when they smashed each other?

Answer 29

40.5 mph

Question 30

Misleading information - Loftus and Palmer How fast did ppts say the car was going when they collided into each other?

Answer 30

31.8 mph

Question 31

Asch's sample

Answer 31

123 American male students

Question 32

Zimbardo's sample

Answer 32

volunteer sample of 24 'emotionally stable' US male university students

Question 33

Milgram's sample

Answer 33

40 American males aged 20-50

Question 34

Adorno's sample

Answer 34

2000 American participants

Question 35

Peterson's and Peterson's sample

Answer 35

24 undergraduate students

Question 36

Bahrick's sample

Answer 36

392 American high school graduates between 17-74

Question 37

Loftus and Palmer's sample

Answer 37

45 American students