Social: Reduction of prejudice, increase of obedience. Explaining football violence/terrorism/historical atrocities. Cognitive: Help with dyslexia and dementia. Helping aid revision techniques for students. If eyewitness testimony is reliable or not. Biological:...
Social: Prejudice links to racism and impact of research on ppts and the groups they represent. Cognitive: Issues of memory loss due to dementia and how study of this is socially sensitive to individual and family. Biological: Linking biology to behaviour such as...
Social Self-reporting data, questionnaires and interviews Cognitive Field and lab experiments, case studies of brain damaged patients Biological Correlations, brain scanning, twin and adoption studies Learning Observations, content analysis, animal experiments...
To what extent is it better for psychologists to use animals rather than humans in research? [12] With reference to both social and clinical psychology to what extent can psychology be called a science? [20] Evaluate the ethical issues involved in the use of human...
Social: Issues of informed consent, causing psychological harm and right to withdraw within obedience research. The necessity of creating these conditions in order to study prejudice and obedience. For example, Milgram’s study was very unethical. Sherif also...
Social: Practical issues when researching prejudice, such as social desirability or demand characteristics. Issues with interviews/self-reports when measuring obedience/prejudice. Importance of sampling ppts into conditions. Sherif – naturalistic observation so high...
Social: Social impact theory reduces behaviour down to a mathematical equation. Measuring prejudice attitudes by questionnaires can reduce complexity of behaviour. Sherif reduces prejudice to being caused by conflict – ignores upbringing and biological aspect....
Social: Issues of personality, culture, gender and situation in explaining obedience and prejudice. Use of two different theories to explain prejudice (Realistic Conflict and Social Identity) and obedience (Agency and Social Impact). Cognitive: Four models of memory...
Social: Controls over variables in lab experiments can lead to replicability and high reliability. However bias in questionnaires raises issues of validity. Can be criticised for not being able to generalise findings to real world. Cognitive: One of the most...
Social: Obedience found not to be influenced by gender (Milgram). However, there are cultural differences (collectivistic versus individualistic) in obedience. Cognitive: Sebastian and Hernandez Gil found differences in digit span length among English and Spanish...
Social: Role of authoritarian personality and upbringing in obedience and prejudice. Realistic Conflict and Social Identity focus on situational factors that cause conflict. May be oversimplified. Personality theories do not ignore nurture side – in fact personality...
Social: Changes from Milgram (1960s) and replication work of Burger (2009). Similarly, Cohrs further examined work of Adorno on personality and prejudice. Cognitive: Baddeley’s work studying STM and LTM led to WMM. This model was later added to (episodic buffer in...
Social: Making people obey authority and socialising them into an agentic state from a young age. Knowledge of how to induce and reduce prejudice within individuals and groups. Can help to prevent blind obedience and manipulate obedience, ie positions of authority...