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| Outwardly go along with the majority view however, this is only a temporary change while with the group - Asch's Line Study | What is compliance? |
| Publicly changing our opinions while with a group, even if we do not agree with everything the group stands for, e.g. conforming to social roles - Zimbardo's prison study | What is identification? |
| When the person changes their beliefs/ behaviours both publicly and privately, this is a permanent change, such as someone converting religion - Jenness' Bean Jar Experiment | What is internalisation? |
| When we follow/ copy other people's actions because we want to "fit in" and be liked, such as smoking because your friends are smoking - Asch's Line Study | What is NSI? - Normative Social Influence |
| To test conformity under non-ambiguous conditions | What was the aim of Asch's Line Study? |
| 123 American male students who were told it was a study into perception | Who took part in Asch's Line Study and what were they told the aim was? - Asch's Line Study |
| 7 stooges and 1 real participant | How many participants were there in a group and how many were confederates? - Asch's Line Study |
| In 12 out the 18 trails | In how many of the critical trails did the confederates give the wrong answer? - Asch's Line Study |
| 36.8% | What percentage of the naive participants conformed when all the stooges gave the wrong answer? - Asch's Line Study |
| 25% | How many participants never conformed to the confederates in any of the trails? - Asch's Line Study |
| 75% | How many participants conformed to the stooges in at least 1 trail? - Asch's Line study |
| In order to "not spoil the results" Others thought the majority were "sheep" for following the first confederate so did the same themselves | What were the two reasons the participants gave when asked why they conformed to the confederates after the study? - Asch's Line Study |
| The group size varied from 1-15 confederates with still only 1 naive participant and overall, the more stooges there were, the high the conformity was | How was group size changed and what effect did this have on conformity? - Asch's Line Study |
| They rarely conformed and answered correctly in nearly all the trails | How often would the participants conform when faced with just 1 confederate? - Asch's Line Study |
| 13.6% of the time | What percentage of participants conformed when faced with 2 confederates? - Asch's Line Study |
| 31.8% of the time | What percentage of participants conformed when faced with 3 confederates? - Asch's Line Study |
| 3 confederates | After how many confederates did a change in number of stooges make little to no change in the percentage of conformity? - Asch's Line Study |
| The naive participant was given a "truthful partner", this was a stooge who always gave the correct answer and conformity rates dropped to 5% | How was unanimity changed and what result did it have on conformity? - Asch's Line Study |
| The 3 lines were made much more similar in length and Asch found that doing this increased conformity, the smaller the difference between the line lengths, the higher the conformity rates | How was task difficulty changed and what result did it have on conformity? - Asch's Line Study |
| 7 inches | How many inches difference was there in the line length when participants still conformed? - Asch's Line Study |
| It means that cause and effect can easily be established and the consistency and reliability of the results are high | What did doing the study in a lab under strict controlled conditions means? - Asch's Line Study |
| Smith and Bond (1998) did a similar study and found that people in collectivist cultures show higher levels of conformity than those in individualistic cultures, meaning Asch's findings cannot be applied to all | How do cultural differences effect the applicability of the findings? Asch's Line Study |
| The sample used was 123 participants of similar ages, which adds realism as it shows how we conform in real life, as we are usually around people of similar ages to us | How was realism added to the study and was this a strength or a weakness? - Asch's Line Study |
| Ecological validity - it's only guessing lines, not complex like real life Gender bias - androcentric sample Ethical issues - perception of the aim of the study | What other evaluation points can be used? - Asch's Line Study |
| How readily do people conform to social roles | What was the aim of Zimbardo's Prison Experiment? |
| 24 volunteers were randomly allocated either the role of a guard or a prisoner after being screened for physical and mental health issues and were offered $15 a day to take part | Who took part in the experiment and how were they selected? - Zimbardo's Prison Experiment |
| The 12 prisoners were randomly arrested in their homes by real police officers and then the participants were also given guard or prisoner uniforms | How was the experiment made to feel as life like as possible? - Zimbardo's Prison Experiment |
| No physical harm was permitted | What was the one main rule? - Zimbardo's Prison Experiment |
| Intended to run for 2 weeks but only ran for 6 days | How long was the experiment meant to run and how long did it run? - Zimbardo's Prison Experiment |
| Yes, so much so some of the prisoners became depressed and anxious and some of the guards began harassing prisoners within a few hours | Did participants conform to their social roles? - Zimbardo's Prison Experiment |
| After 2 days | After how many days did the prisoners begin to rebel? - Zimbardo's Prison Experiment |