Social Psychology Overview
- Created by: Lorna
- Created on: 25-03-13 16:12
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- Social Psychology
- Assumption
- Our beh. is influenced by others and the environment around us
- Studies
- Milgram
- Participants give stooge 'electric shocks'
- Do they obey authority figure?
- Reicher and Haslam
- Prison study
- Prioners and guards
- Anarchy?
- Prison study
- Piliavin, Rodin and Piliavin
- Drunk/ill passenger collapses on train
- Do other passengers help?
- Drunk/ill passenger collapses on train
- Milgram
- Strengths
- Clear links to real-life situations
- wide range of evidence has been obtained
- Weaknesses
- Often generalises too much
- Reduces importance of individual
- Has been dominated by old 'classic' studies
- Often generalises too much
- Assumption
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