Milgram Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is obedience? - ANSWER A form of social influence in which an individual follows a direct order from a figure of authority. What was Milgram's (1964) study? - ANSWER Milgram (1964) sought an answer to why such a high proportion of the German population obeyed Hitler's commands to murder over 6 million Jews in the Holocaust and other social groups during WW2. Procedure: 40 US men were given the role of TEACHER through a fixed draw - ordered to administer (fake) electric shocks to LEA...

What is obedience? - ANSWER A form of social influence in which an individual follows a direct order from a figure of authority. What was Milgram's (1964) study? - ANSWER Milgram (1964) sought an answer to why such a high proportion of the German population obeyed Hitler's commands to murder over 6 million Jews in the Holocaust and other social groups during WW2. Procedure: 40 US men were given the role of TEACHER through a fixed draw - ordered to administer (fake) electric shocks to LEA...

Social Psych the scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context Milgram Study Power of persuasion study- shock test. Will people listen to someone else in a situation where they are harming someone? Were asked questions- shocked if wrong. Social Context something that is not real or present but still has an important effect on individuals. Ex. Iraq stampede Proximal Influence peoples reactions in immediate situations-social norms of the situation-current ...

CHAPTER 12 REVIEW COMPLETE Kara gets an F on her social psychology exam. Then she goes home and gets into an argument with her roommate, Lee. Lee assumes Kara is yelling at him because she likes to bully him, not because she had a bad day. Lee is making a ________. ANSWER = fundamental attribution error If a person says that actors make effective spokespeople for potato chips because they are above average in attractiveness, which approach is that person using to explain attitude change? ...

AQA A level Psychology - Paper 3 topics Exam Questions and Answers Gender bias - Answer-Psychologists seek universality but bias may be inevitable (social historical contexts) Gender bias: psychological theory/research not accurately represent experience/behaviour of men + women Alpha bias: differences exaggerated, devalue women E.g. Freud = genuine psychological differences due to physiological differences Girls suffer from 'penis envy', femininity is failed masculinity Beta bias: di...

A form of social influence where the behaviour of an individual is influence by a real or imagined pressure from another. Correct answer define obedience Rejecting the demands of an authority figure (opposite of obedience) correct answer define dissent When an individual's behaviour, attitudes and emotions are affected by those of another correct answer define social influence We obediently follow teachers, employers, police officers and the general rules of society. War crimes are oft...

Forensic Psychology - ANSWER-a field of psychology that deals with all aspects of human behavior as it relates to the law or legal system 3 categories of killers according to Browning (in Police Battalion 101 during the Holocaust) - ANSWER-1. Laggers 2. Accommodators 3. Evaders What do we turn to for explanation of the behavior of Police Battalion 101 killers? - ANSWER-Social psychology (personality psychology looked at people as individuals and not a group) Factors from social psych...

PSYC Chapter 13 Study Guide Test Correctly Answered 2024. 1. People tend to feel discomfort when their thoughts are inconsistent, and so they act to reduce that discomfort. This is known as: A. motivated forgetting. B. the fundamental attribution error. C. cognitive dissonance theory. D. the confirmation bias. C - CORRECT ANSWER Right Points Earned: 1/1 Correct Answer: C Your C 2. The Stanford Prison Experiment consisted of male college students who volunteered to participate in ...

Milgram's Obedience Studies - ANSWER-- Participants "teachers" instructed to deliver shocks to "learner" whenever the learner makes a mistake. - Shocks from 15 volts to 450 volts; increase with each mistake. - Experimenter's Orders "verbal prods": He's fine, go one. Experiment requires that you go on. Absolutely essential to go on. You have no choice. You must go on. What was predicted on the Milgram study? - ANSWER-Disobey at around 135 volts. 0.1% would deliver the max shock of 4...

1) Milgram (Participants/Sample) - 1)All white males from new haven, Connecticut 2)Age ranged from 20 - 50 years old 3)40 participants in total 4)volunteers from news ad 5) were paid $4.50 2) Pilliavin (Participants/Sample) - 1) 4 teams of 4 (2 Males, 2 Females) 2)Opportunity sample 3)avg # of riders per section is 43 3) Yamamoto (Participants/Sample) - 1) Opportunity Sample 2) 5 Mother- Offspring pairs 4)Bandura (Participants/Sample) - 1) 72 total kids 2) 36 boys; 36 girls 3)3 - 6 y...