P2 Describe two studies in psychology. Solomon Asch - Conformity Experiment (1951) Asch wanted to find out if a group of people would conform to the wrong answer following people who had already but there hand up even though the correct answer was very obvious. It was used with a line graph and you had to say which line was the tallest out them all. Asch conducted an experiment to investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform and follow what they do. Asch used a lab experiment to study conformity; he got 50 males to come and do the experiment and used 7 people who were confederates, the confederates had agreed in advance what their responses would be when shown with the line task.
Despite having been mislead or misinformed, people often report experiencing events that they have not experienced. This is the phenomenon known as false memory (Brainard & Mojardin, 1998). Research on memory, and in particular, children’s memory, over the past decade has shown repeated misinformation may distort recollection and allow remembrance of details that were not actually present in the original event. Research also suggests that both children and adults may experience false memories when imagined or intensively thought about events that never happened at all are experienced as real upon subsequent recollection. One famous psychologist and memory
One research study into the duration of short term memory is by Peterson and Peterson [1959]. In their study the experimenter told participants a consonant syllable followed by a three-digit number. Immediately after hearing this they had to count backwards from the three-digit number in 3’s until told to stop. Then the participant was told to recall the nonsense syllable. They did this eight times and each time the retention interval was different.
Also the study of Goodman and Reed (1986) they did a study on children ages between 3-6 years and they played Simon say’s and then 5 days later they were questioned about this event. They found that the 3 year olds recalled less detail. Loftus (1974) reported a lab study which demonstrated the huge role that anxiety can play. Participants were exposed to two situations, one, a low key discussion which results in a person emerging from a room with a pen in his hand, and the other, a heated argument resulting in breaking of glass, smashing of chairs and man emerging holding a bloodstained knife. Participants were then given 50 photos and asked to identify the person.
Of these subjects, 75% of them changed their answers to the majority vote at least once. When under the influence of peer pressure, the subjects accepted the majority and conformed 36.8% of the time. 25% of the individuals who partook in the experiment did not conform at all. Many variables within the experiment made the conformity rate fluctuate. These variables among others were unanimity, and when faced with an opposition of only 2, minority subjects “accepted the wrong answer 13.6 per cent of the time.
The males were divided into three groups; those who were alone, those who were placed with two people that did not react and were a part of the experiment, and then three males who were all students and were not aware of the situation. Of those participants who were alone 75% reported the emergency before the experiment was terminated. Of those who were placed with two non-reacting others, only 10% reported the emergency before the experiment was terminated Of the group of three students only in about 38% of the eight groups did even one person respond before the experiment was over. From this experiment, one can conclude that the social environment really does affect a person’s response. If a person is within a group that does not react the individual may feel as though the situation is not an emergency
The interview session lasted for 30 minutes and the interviewers’ primary concerns rested with the consistency of outcome. The fourth interview was also a follow up interview but involved the children. This interview lasted for 15 minutes and had a total of eight questions. The focus was primarily on outcome consistency, the examination of the interview process, and the worst and best things the children experienced with Family Group Conferencing. The two practitioners received a semi-structured interview consisting of 10 questions and lasted for 30 minutes.
There are three different classes so three different websites. We post our answers to the question given to us which nobody can see until the teacher checks them and then she posts it. The question we answered this time was “Who do you thing was most at fault regarding the red sweater?” After most of the class posted we collected data from this year and last year to analyze it and that is what we did. Many comparisons stand out when looking at the kidblog data. One comparison is the old and current thought that Rachel was least at fault old data with 5% out of 100% and current with 5% out of 100%.
In order to establish the stressfulness of each event they enlisted the help of 400 participant and they were asked to score each of the 43 life events with a numerical figure of how much readjustment would be needed, taking marriage as an arbitrary baseline value of 50. They suggested that people with an LCU of between 200-300 have a 50% chance of getting ill, while a score over 300 increases this to 80%. Lazarus suggests that major life changes are relatively rare in most people’s lives. Instead he argues that it is the minor daily stressors (hassles) a person’s experiences which will impact on their health. For example, De Longis studied stress in 75 married couples.
The author asked the student five questions and recorded the student’s responses to each question. The questions and responses are listed below: 1. Is it wrong to cheat? Why or Why not? It’s wrong.