Psychology Social Unit 2 Revision

Psychology Social Unit 2 Revision

Multiple Choice

What type of social influence is:

your first day of school you see the cool girls wearing pink so the next day you come to school wearing pink.

• ISI

• NSI

Multiple Choice

What type of social influence is:

you don't know the answer to a math problem so you see what the smartest girl in the class answers. You then say the same answer.

• ISI

• NSI

Open Ended

Describe Asch's conformity study. Include the 3 variations he made and how they affected conformity levels.

Multiple Choice

What is it called when someone acts in response to a direct order from someone in a position of authority?

• Conformity

• Obedience

Open Ended

Describe Milgram's study.

Multiple Select

Select all the ethical guidelines that Milgram broke in his experiment.

• Informed Consent

• Protection from harm

• Debrief

• Right to withdraw

• Deception

Zimbardo Social Roles experiment

• Stanford Prison Experiment, a social psychology study in which college students became prisoners or guards in a simulated prison environment. 

• Philip G. Zimbardo terminated the experiment after only six days.

• Experimenters selected 24 applicants who were judged to be physically and mentally healthy. The paid subjects—they received $15 a day—were divided randomly into equal numbers of guards and prisoners.

• Guards were ordered not to physically hurt the prisoners and were issued mirrored sunglasses that prevented any eye contact.

• Prisoners were “arrested” by actual police and handed over to the experimenters in a mock prison in the basement of a campus building. 

•  In keeping with Zimbardo’s intention to create very quickly an “atmosphere of oppression,” each prisoner was made to wear a “dress” as a uniform and to carry a chain padlocked around one ankle. 

• On only the second day the prisoners staged a rebellion. Guards then worked out a system of rewards and punishments to manage the prisoners.

• Within the first four days, three prisoners had become so traumatized that they were released. Over the course of the experiment, some of the guards became cruel and tyrannical, while a number of the prisoners became subdued and disoriented.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a social role?

• Teacher

• Police officer

• Camera man

• Student

Multiple Choice

How many days after the experiment began did the experiment end?

• 2 days

• 5 days

• 6 days

• 7 days

Multiple Choice

Where did the experiment take place?

• Yale

• NYU

• Stanford

• Oxford

Multiple Choice

Did the participants conform to their assigned 'social role'?

• Yes

• No

Milgram's Situational Variables

Proximity

Multiple Choice

Did wearing a uniform increase or decrease obedience?

• Increase

• Decrease

Open Ended

How did a change in proximity affect levels of obedience?

Open Ended

What effect did location change have on obedience?