Exam-Style Questions- Social Influence
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Outline how Milgram investigated the effect of 2 sitational factors on obedience (4 marks)
- Location was changed from a prestigious university setting to a run down building
- Obedience fell to 47%, showing the experimenter had less authority in this setting
- In the original experiment, the experimenter wore a grey lab coat (uniform). In a vriation, the experimenter was 'an ordinary member of the public dressed in ordinary clothes'
- Obedience fell to 20%, suggesting unifrom acts as a strog visual authority symbol
Outline the Authoritarian personality as an explanation for obedience (2 marks)
- People with an authoritarian personality are especially obedient to authority- obedience is pathological
- It originates from childhood through harsh parenting e.g. extremely strict discipline and severe criticism
Outline and briefly explain 2 methodological issues in Asch's studies of social influence (4 marks)
- Participants were all white, male college students (the study was androcentric and ethnocentric)
- The findings can't be applied to women, different cultures…
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