Secondly, individuals think and act differently when they are in a group is because they are being controlled by the group. For instance, if there are four people in a group when the accident occurs, one of them wants to help the victim, but the others might want to ignore the scene. Then the person who wants to help the victim thinks that nobody else in group wants to help. That person is more likely to stay with the
A larger sample size of diverse age, gender and demographic would be required to allow the results to be generalised to a wider population. Targeted Audience: The target group tested contained 102 volunteers at the beginning of the experiment. There were 20 males and 82 females aged between 21 and 26, all psychology students at University of the Basque Country with no prior experience in this particular experiment. They were divided into two groups of 51 people, the first being the incidental group and the second being the intentional group. Eight subjects were eliminated from the experiment due to improperly following instructions.
His argument had effect the classification system, in DSM-IV the new identity are given to those patients so they would be accept by the society. However, there are still ethical concerns since the patients are still labeled as “abnormal”, even though they behave normal. Scheff argued that giving people labels would probably effect their behavior by self fulfilling prophecy, which means, people would behave in ways they think they are. They would automatically play the role of mentally disorder and show more obvious symptoms by knowing that they are mentally ill. Doherty argued that people who do not accept their labels are tend to improve faster, which means people who accept the labels did not improve as fast. In a study carried out by Langer and Abelson, it shows that people who are labeled as mentally dis order tend to endure discrimination.
Having Fun With Operational Definitions Adapted from teachpsychscience.org Directions: Identify and operationally define the independent and dependent variables in each of the following research ideas. Research Idea #1: A social psychologist was interested in whether people are more likely to exhibit conformity when they are in situations that make them feel nervous and unsure of themselves. What is the independent variable? How would you define it operationally? What is the dependent variable?
weather and their feelings at the time of the incident. There could be a problem with this as it may increase witness anxiety and therefore information may be less accurate. The third technique is CHANGING THE ORDER where the witness is asked to recall the incident in a different chronological order. The last one is CHANGING THE PERSPECTIVE where the witness is asked to mentally recreate the situation from different points of view e.g describing what another witness at that time would have seen. A meta-analysis of 53 studies found on average an increase of 34% in the amount of correct information generated in the Cognitive Interview compared with standard interviewing techniques.
Part 1 Summarising and interpreting the information in the table drawn on research by Stanley Milgram. ( pg 11 of DSE 141 Assignment booklet) The table shows the predictions by college students and three experimental results one made by the original study and two variations of the experiment. Where the participant learned with co – ‘teachers’ who defy the authority figure (variation 1) and where the participant teamed with co – ‘teachers’ who obey the authority figure (variation 2). ‘Each participant went through identical experimental procedure at which the teacher stopped shocking the learner . The experiment shows that on average level of shock at which teachers refused to continue in volts (variation 2) scored the highest (380), variation 1 scored 240 and 368 by the original study the difference is relatively small with variation 2 being quite high with the predictions made of 140 by the students.
One of such theories is by Laurence Steinberg, who holds that brain science demonstrates that the adolescents’ brain plays a big role in influencing adolescents undertake riskier behaviors. Over the years, there have been stereotypes that adolescents are irrational persons who believe that they are not vulnerable and unaware of the risks behaviors and are unconcerned and inattentive to the possible consequences of their risky behaviors. The facts, however, are that the logical reasoning of a 15years adolescent is similar to those of adults when perceiving risks. The difference comes in when reasoning about the consequences of the risky behaviors. The adolescents do not take time to critically think about the consequence of the risky behaviors.
However in today's society, psychologists have been able to do research on the way human’s behaviour react in different situations with different participants to be able to get a generalized result but to do so they must first distinguish if the participant is showing social or personal identities. Unlike in early psychology when it was focused on an individual, researchers have now found the most effective way of finding results is looking at the social context when studying behaviour. To be able to get an indiscriminate result, psychologists have to look at what groups their participants belong too. This means the age, sex and nationality among many other things. When we belong to certain groups, most of the time we are unaware of how the socially derived structure actually affects us in the way which we behave.
He later received comments that Yale students were too aggressive and the experiment did not have any relevance to the average person. Milgram then conducted the experiment again but this time with what was seen as the “average” person and the results showed that eighty-five percent of the individuals were obedient. Solomon Asch conducted his experiment to test a group’s influence on an individual. In this experiment, Asch placed an individual with others in a group, a set of cards would be shown, and each
Peer Observation 4 – Questioning Techniques As an overview about the class I observed, the class consisted of 13 students who were all repeated students enrolled in a two-year vocational school. They were A1 beginner but compared to the other classes I observed they were lack of awareness and knowledge on the language. Their motivation was considerably low. The lesson was speaking lesson and they were given a paper including ten questions asking their opinion on some controversial issues. They started to discuss them in the previous lesson and they continued from the third question, “Media influences society in a bad way.