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    AS PSYCH Class assignment 1

    Define following terms

    Obedience
    Flowing order form the authority
    Agency theory
    The stage when we do not control what to do, we allow other to tell us what to do
    Social impact theory

    Personality

    Conformity
    Flowing the majority when we don’t know what to do, or want to fit in the group
    Locus of control
    The personality that believes how much control do we have on our self, this influence whatever he are likely
    to obedience
    F-scale
    Personality of how fascism a person is measures antidemocratic

    Empathy
    the ability of feeling and understand others feeling
    Identity
    When we temporal adapt in the group
    Compliance
    Changing behaviour to response to a request
    Internalisation
    When we following the group because we don’t know what to do, and we adapt in to the believes

    Social norm
    Standard behaviour, thoughts that are accept by a social group

    Short answers

    Describe situation factors that affect obedience.


    Proximity to authority
    Proximity to victim
    Whatever they are responsible
    Support of others
    Describe individual factors that affect obedience.
    Internal or external locus of control
    “Internal locus of control are more unlikely to obedience and external are likely to follow’
    F scale
    High F scale are more unlikely to obedience

    Describe Milgram’s basic study (1963) in your own words (aim, procedure, result, conclusion).
    Aims
    To investigate how situation factors would influence whatever people would obedience
    Procedure
    The participant are gather through advertisement on news paper, they were told that It’s a experiment about
    study and memory, there was a guy are tied on a electric chair, and the participant were ask to hit the button
    if that guy make mistake during the memory test, there are also a guy who dress up like a expert and
    recording the data. The participant were the only one who doesn't know about the true prepuces of the
    experiment, and others were acting. They were test whatever they would push the button in different
    situation
    What is an agency theory and how do you evaluate it (strengths and weaknesses)?
    Supported by experiment and data, so it’s scientific ,
    Experiment included enough situation, so has good ecological validity
    Can be use to explain real life events

    Having ethical problems


    Did not explain individual difference(why some people did and some did not)
    The concept of agency are difficult to measure

    Summarize factors affecting obedience and dissenting (name them and briefly describe).

    Proximity to authority
    Proximity to victim
    Whatever they are responsible
    Support of others

    Internal or external locus of control


    “Internal locus of control are more unlikely to obedience and external are likely to follow’
    F scale
    High F scale are more unlikely to obedience
    Describe three types of conformity and give an example to each condition.
    Internalization
    When we following the group because we don’t know what to do, and we adapt in to the believes
    Normative social influence
    Going along with the majority because we want to fit in the group, like flowing the group because want to be
    friends with them

    Describe Asch (1951) experiment and compare it to Sherif (1935).

    They re both experiment about conformity, investigation to see how people would conform in a group,
    Asch’s experiment was asking the participant to mach which lines on the lift are same with line on the right.
    There was only on true participant in one group, other people are actors. They answer a wrong answer to see
    if the participant would going with them. And Sherifs’ experiment was asking about light dot in a dark
    room, aking the participant if the dot was moving, this experiment does not have a answer
    Essay question

    Concepts, theories and research from social psychology can be used to answer key questions of relevance to
    today’s society.
    Using concepts, theories and/or research, discuss a key question/news/facts from a documentary relating to
    social psychology.

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