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Flashcards by Elise Lambert, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Elise Lambert
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What helps people resist conformity and Obedience? | Social support |
| What does social support mean? | the presence of other people who are not conforming or obeying. |
| How long are the affects of social support? | Not long lasting at all - if the dissenter going back to performing, so did the participant (asch) |
| What did the obedience rate drop to in Milgam's experiment when they were joined by a disobedient confederate? | 10% |
| What is meant by locus of control? | refers to the sense we each have about what directs events in our lives. |
| who proposed the idea of Locus of Control | Julian Rotter |
| What types of Locus of control are there? | Internal and external |
| What do people with an Internal Locus of Control believe? | they believe that they are mostly responsible to what happens to them. |
| What do people with an external Locus of control believe? | They believe that things that happen to them are beyond their control and down to luck or other forces. |
| Who is more likely to resist social influence? | People with internal locus of control because they feel more responsibilities for their own actions. |
| What research support is there for Social support? | Allen and Levine: found that conformity decreased when there was one dissenter in an asch type study. Even if he wore thick glasses and said his eyesight was bad |
| What research support is there for Obedience? | Gamson et al: found higher levels of resistance. They were in groups and had to produce evidence that would be used to help an oil company run a smear campaign. 88% of participants rebelled |
| what research support is there for Locus of Control? | Holland: repeated milgram's baseline study and measured whether participants were internals or externals. 37% of internals did not continue to highest shock and 23% externals did not continue |
| What is a limitation of Locus of control? | Twenge et al: analysed data from American obedience studies of a 40 year period and showed that we are become more obedient but more external- this contradicts LOC |
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