Social Flashcards
(20 cards)
Procedure of Milgrams-participants
40 male participants - age between 20-50
Milgrams Results
65%reached 450v
Asch 1951 aim
Examine the extent to social pressure, majority influenced minority
Grave milgrams
No protection from harm
No wright to withdraw
Not generalized- all male volunteers from New York
Reliable - in a lab setting with no extraneous variables
Milgrams original study was replicated 16 times
Low in ecological validity -not a real life setting
Milgrams office variation
Run down office - 47.5%
Burger expirement
Paid 50
29 men and 41 women
From 20-81
70% continued after 150v-Milgrams 100
Grave burger
G/only US participants
R/high standardized procedure- same script
A/war situations apply
V/people with heart issues and mental disorders were dropped and people who herd about the expirement as well
E/voltage max to 150v -instantly debriefed
Agency theory
People will obey an authority when the authority will take responsibility of them acting on their behalf
Social power theoryp-compliance -behavior
Internalization- true conformity
Indentification - group
French and raven - reward-coercion - expert power -legitimate -referent is power others give you-information
+application to every day life
Difference to obedience
Locus of control - thinks of personality only and ignores biological pre-dispositions-genetics
Helps us understand why a person might obey
F-scale -adorno
Asch procedure + results
50 male participants-74% of participants conformed at least once
It was Aline test 7 participants and one real one and they had to pick out the target line ,
Not generalized
Artificial task
Asch variations
1968 Allen and Levine - introduced disagreement-one participant wore thick glasses - conformity dropped to 64%
1956- the bigger the conformity group the more people confirm -with one person 1/2 as long as 3 people say its true - you will give in 1-3% 3-32%
Moscovici 1976
Argues that compliance is a common factor of conformity - publicly conform and privately reject
Factors effecting conformity
Personality - culture how liberal - situation
Huan 2014 majority influence
Peer influence across species
Compare 2 year old children to chimpanzees and orangutans
Huan sample
18 children: 9 female, 9 male; mean age = 28 months.
* 12 chimpanzees: 7 female, 5 male; mean age = 121 months, * 12 orangutans: 6 female, 6 male; mean age = 102 months,
What did we learn huan
There was a box in the middle that if they put something in a specific area then they would get a reward.
Influence on consistent minority moscovici 1969
Minority on majority
Minority influence-internalization-true conformity
Blue or green study
6 participants and 2 confederates fakes
Confederates consistently give the wrong answer (blue)
1 in 3 people conformed at least once 33%
Huan procedure and results
Participants learned that balls could be put in
all boxes, but only one would give rewards.
3 familiar peers were given rewards
12/18 children switch
2/12 chimpanzees
2/12 orangutans
Streanght of huan and weakness
A/ related to the real world = higher ecological validity
Internal validity - different ages and different sample
Could have alternative explanations
