Social psychology Edexcel
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- Created on: 21-05-22 19:11
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- Social psychology part 1
- Agency theory
- Agency theory explained why people obeyed and what made them obey
- 1 of 2 states between Agentic state and autonomous state
- + Milgrams baseline study of obedience. -only included men so not generalisable
- +Hofling et al nurse study - a field experiment meaning not all variables can be controlled
- + high ecological validity as can be applied to real life: world war 2 natzi soldiers in Agentic state.
- Social impact theory latane
- Obedience depends on; strength, immediacy and size
- + crane neck experiment
- High ecological validation and applicable to real life.
- Does not take into account individual differences
- Milgrams studies
- # original study. # Ex 7 telephone instructions. # Ex 10 run down office block # Ex 13 ordinary man gives orders
- Prejudice
- An extreme, unfavourable attitude with ABC components.
- Affective , behavioural & cognitive
- Realistic conflict theory : sherif
- Explains prejudice as easing from conflict in 2 or more groups
- Robbers cave
- Social identity theory: Tajfel and Turner
- Suggests only two groups needed for prejudice to occur: in and out groups
- Social categorisation, social identification , social comparisons
- Klee and Kandinsky: Bristol school boys and paintings
- An extreme, unfavourable attitude with ABC components.
- Individual differences
- Obedience
- Personality : high E people likely to rebel against authority. High n people would be unsuited to follow orders as they don’t learn easily
- Culture : individualistic cultures and collectivist cultures. Assumes collectivist cultures are more obedient.
- Prejudice
- Personality :
- Obedience
- Agency theory
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