Y1 Thursday Quiz 2 (RM, Social infl., memory)

Normative social influence prompts individuals to conform because...

• they want to be the same as their parents

• they want to rebel and not be seen as normal

• they want conform to group norms to fit in/gain acceptance

• they believe the group has orrect information, e.g. in ambiguous tasks

the deepest level of conformity. Here a person changes both their public behaviour (the way they act) and their private beliefs. This is usually a long-term change and often the result of informational social influence.

• Internalisation
• compliance

• identification

• Internal processing

An "__(A)__" refers to a psychological state where an individual acts as an agent for an authority figure, relinquishing personal responsibility for their actions, while an "__(B)___" is the process of moving from an autonomous state (where one makes their own decisions) to an agentic state, essentially giving up control to an authority figure

• A: autonomous state, B: authority figure

• A: agentic shift; B: agentic state

• A:compliant; B: mindset

• A: agentic state; B: agentic shift

individual characteristics that influence behavior and actions in a person. Things like individual personality traits, temperament, and genetics are all...

• upbringing factors

• Environmental factors

• dispositional factors

• situational factors

Students who listen to background music while studying will score higher on a memory test compared to those who study in silence. Directional or non-directional?

• Directional
• Non-directional
• You can't tell from this statement.

• This is actually an aim.

20 students are recruited from a local college using _________ (the first 20 students available and willing to participate are selected around the college).

• opportunity sampling

• systematic sampling
• stratified sampling
• random sampling

a sampling technique that uses a predetermined system to select the participants from a target group. For example, every fourth person in a list could be used in the sample.

• opportunity sampling

• systematic sampling
• stratified sampling
• random sampling

Ensures each participant has an equal chance of being in either condition A or B, reducing bias.

• Chance meeting

• Participant selection
• Experimental design
• random allocation

A researcher investigated whether people with OCD are more aware of their own heart-rate than people who do not have OCD. 10 people with OCD and 10 people without OCD were selected to take part. What type of experiment is this?

• lab

• field

• quasi

• natural

What is this an example of? The researched first divided the 20 students into two groups of 10, with Group 1 completing Condition A (daily 2 km run) followed by Condition B (normal activities), and Group 2 completing Condition B (normal activities) followed by Condition A (daily 2 km run).

• Reordering process (redo-it technique)

• Randomisation (randomiser technique)

• Counterbalancing (ABBA technique)

• Remixing (ACCA technique)