Social Psychology

Our behaviour is self-directed → free to choose how to behave

We take responsibility for the consequences of our actions

• Autonomous state

• Agentic shift

Moral Strain

• Experience anxiety

• Cognitive dissonance

• Both

What was Perry (2012) claim about Milgram's study?

• ppts was pressure to do so

• ppts saw through the deception

• ppts was afraid of the "teacher"

Which milgram studies shows that agentic shift did not happen

• Experiment in rundown building

• Experiment using phone

• Experiment using

Latané’s formula represents theory about how ‘sources’ impact ‘targets’

Impact on target = f(?)

• SIN

• SEN

• END

• SII

Name a weakness of random sampling?

• Very time consuming

• Participants may have special qualities

• Sample may not be representative

A hypothesis which states 'the kind of difference between two conditions' is called..

• Non-directional (two tailed)

• Directional (one tailed)

• Null

What is a strength of random sampling?

• Very representative

• No researcher bias

• Very representative

• Quick and easy

Milgram's original study of obedience had how many participants?

• 40

• 60

• 53

The shock generator ranged from..

• 40v - 250v

• 50v - 450v

• 40v - 250v

• 15v - 450v