OCR A level Psychology Core Study: Bocchiaro et al. (2012)

Bocchiaro et al. (2012) was critical of Milgram's study due to it's focus on ____ and it's failure to consider ____.

• destructive obedience; disobedience
• destructive disobedience; disobedience
• constructive disobedience; disobedience
• constructive obedience; whistle-blowing

Unlike Milgram, Bocchiaro et al.'s (2012) study focused on disobedience to _______.

• an unjust authority
• a just authority
• a confused authority
• an authentic authority

Aside from studying obedience and disobedience Bocchiaro et al. (2012) also looked at the likelihood of ______.

• whistle-blowing
• smoke-blowing
• bell-ringing
• whistling

One of Bocchiaro et al.'s (2012) aims was to investigate the _____ of people's _____ of obedience, disobedience and whistle-blowing.

• accuracy; estimates
• inaccuracy; estimates
• accuracy; guesses
• accuracy; testiments

Another of Bocchiaro et al.'s (2012) aims was to investigate the role of _____ in obedience, disobedience and whistle-blowing.

• dispositional factors
• situational factors
• positional factors
• expositional factors

Eight pilot studies involvoing 92 participants were carried out to be sure the procedure was both _____ and _____.

• credible; ethically acceptable
• audible; ethically acceptable
• credible; ethnically acceptable
• creative; ethically acceptable

149 people, 96 men and 53 women, from the _____ participanted in the main procedure

• VU University of Amsterdam
• VU University of Rotterdam
• VU University of Eindhoven
• VU University of The Hague

How were Bocchiaro et al.'s (2012) sample of volunteers recruited?

• Flyers were posted in the university cafeteria
• Particpants were contacted by email
• Adverts were placed around the university
• The researchers asked their friends to participate

In procedure one, the 149 participants were met by a stern experimenter, who after explaining the previous study had to be stopped because the participants panicked, asked them to ______.

• write a statement to convince other students to take part in the sensory deprivation procedure
• read a statement to convince other students to take part in the sensory deprivation procedure
• create an advert to convince other students to take part in the sensory deprivation procedure
• write a statement to convince other students to avoid the sensory deprivation procedure

In procedure two 138 participants were were surveyed about _______.

• how they believed they would behave in the experimental condition
• how they believed they would behave in the control condition
• how they believed others would behave in the experimental condition
• how they believed others would behave in the control condition