Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Social Psychology - Coggle Diagram

- - - - shown two cards: on one a set of three lines of different lengths; on the other card a single line
      - 1 by 1 participants were asked ‘which of the three lines was the same lengthen as the single line”
      - groups of 8 to 10 'participants' - 1 real participant in each and others were stooges
      - 18 trials
      - set up as a simple visual judgement task
    - - Group size: conformity increases with group size up to four
      - Degree of unanimity: when others in the group are unanimous it is difficult to stand out
  - - - The learner had to learn lists of pairs of words and and the teacher had to administer an electric shock each time the learner got them wrong, upping the voltage each time
      - He put people in two groups the ‘teacher’ or the ‘learner’ - however the learner’s were actors
      - Factors influencing obedience
        
        Immediacy or proximity to the experimenter
        
        Authority of the experimenter: wearing a lab-coated or a uniform
        
        Immediacy or proximity to the victim who was not seen
      - Investigate why people just went along with Hitler during WW2 and find out whether individuals would obey an authority figure who was instructing them to inflict pain on another person
      - Reasons people obey authority
        
        Commitment to successful achievement of the experimenter
        
        Lack of disobedient role models
        
        Belief in legitimate authority
        
        lack of personal responsibility
      - The experimenter took both the participant and ‘stooge’ to a room that contained what looked like an electric chair
      - Milgram wanted to see how much shock a normal person would administer to another human simply because he or she were authority
      - 65% of participants obeyed completely although some showed signs of distress and welt all the way to 450 volts
      - Milgram's experiment showed that some people obey an authority even in an extreme situation that causes harm to another
  - - - Complex, new tasks - low arousal level for high performance
        Simple, well-learned tasks - high arousal level for high performance
- - - - Internal Attribution: assigning the cause of behaviour to some internal characteristic, rather than to outside forces. eg: internal attributions, such as personality traits.
      - External Attribution: assigning the cause of behaviour to some situation or event outside a person's control rather than to some internal characteristic. eg. external attribution, such as situational or environment features
  - - - Consensus: the extent to which other people behave in the same way in a similar situation. E.g. Alison smokes a cigarette when she goes out for a meal with her friend. If her friend smokes, her behavior is high in consensus. If only Alison smokes it is low.
      - Distinctiveness: the extent to which the person behaves in the same way in similar situations. If Alison only smokes when she is out with friends, her behavior is high in distinctiveness. If she smokes at any time or place, distinctiveness is low.
      - Consistency: the extent to which the person behaves like this every time the situation occurs. If Alison only smokes when she is out with friends, consistency is high. If she only smokes on one special occasion, consistency is low. (simply psychology)