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Asch's Study
Aim To investigate the extent social pressure from a majority group had on a person to conform. Procedure 123 American male undergraduates Tested in groups of: 5 confederates and 1...
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Asch's Variation Studies (Affecting Variables)
Asch performed additional variation studies used to discover certain factors affecting conformity, including: Group size Unanimity of Majority Difficulty of Task Group Size There i...
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Evaluating Asch's Study
Not all participants conformed when the majority gave unanimous answers Type: Limitation Not all participants conformed when the majority gave unanimous answers. 67% of participant...
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Loftus and Palmer (1974)
Experiment 1 Participants: 45 students 5 groups of 9 Procedure: Shown 7 films of traffic accidents Given a questionnaire after each film, questioning the incident Critical question...
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Romanian Orphan Studies
Institution a place dedicated to a particular task in which people live for a period of time. Context Began under communist rule of Nicolae Ceausescu, 1966. Tried to boost populati...
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Schaffer and Emerson (1964)
Aims To investigate early attachments, in particular the age at which they developed, to whom and the emotional intensity Procedure 60 babies 31 male, 29 female from skilled workin...
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Yerkes and Dodson Law (1908)
A law to account for variation in habit formation based on the strength of stimuli used in conditioning paradigms. In relation to eyewitness testimony, this indicates the point of...
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Zimbardo's Study
info AO3 is not finished. Aim To investigate the extent people would conform to social roles. Procedure Setup a mock prison in the basement of the psychology department at Stanford...
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