That is not to say that there is not a sense of equality, but based on my personal observations a female has the tendency to be more capable of carrying out and following through with tasks more than a man. In regards to education, I believe that females have more success in reading and writing while males are better capable of understanding math. I suppose the reasoning for the success in math is based on my opinion that males are more apt to trigger into their ability to problem solve. Hyde’s
They were shown a line and then asked to choose a matching line from a group of three lines, each of a different length. The experimenter asked each participant to say their answer out loud, with the actual participant answering last. As the confederates gave the wrong answer, the actual participant faced a difficult situation. The participant had to either be the only person to choose the correct matching line (and be different), or to conform and go along with the group to fit in. The result of the Asch conformity experiment was that 75 percent of the actual participants went along with, or conformed to, the group behavior to answer incorrectly.
In line with this hypothesis, a blocked schedule led to better performance than random practice during training but not on the transfer test, where a random schedule was beneficial. The hypothesized interaction effect was also found: Critical thinking prompts after task execution significantly benefit transfer performance of participants following a random schedule, and transfer performance following
These altered what each participant actually saw, therefore not requiring actual confederates. They found levels of conformity similar to those obtained by Asch for women, although not for men. This suggests that Asch’s confederates had acted convincingly in the original study as the results were reproducible using women. A bad point with his study was that the sample was not representative of the target population therefore making it endocentric as all males were used. There has been evidence to suggest that females are more conformist than males, this mean that the findings cannot be applied to women.
This type of conformity is more likely to occur when the situation is ambiguous, there is a crisis or individuals believe other people to be “experts” and know more. Asch conducted a laboratory study where student participants took part in an experiment to measure normative social influence. The experimental design was a repeated measures design and all participants except one person were confederates. The students were asked to compare 3 sets of lines and highlight which one of the 3 matched a 4th standard line. The confederates went first answering incorrectly with the same answer with the real participant being the last or second last one to answer.
We also had multiple reasons as to why we thought these results would occur. Purpose: We did this experiment to see how the interference of the colored text affects the brain using the stroop effect test. In order to name the color instead of the word, it required more concentration and attention. Hypothesis: If given a list of
They were give a description of a stranger with varying degrees of similarity to the participants. They found that significant effects for attitude similarity is important for recipricol liking, and provides strength for the model. However the research was carried out via a lab study, so doesn't necessarily show that the principles of need satisfaction and similarity apply to real life (Mundane Realism), so it may weaken the theory. Cordon and Crano (88) believed similarity is important in the formation of relationships who are not similar to us, we lessen the chance of being rejected. However, there are research limitations, as only attitude and personality factors were dealt with Yoshida (72)pointed out that this represents a narrow view of factors important in relationship formation.
This deliberate use of Adderall to gain better grades puts ADHD students at a further disadvantage because there is no other means by which the field could be leveled once more. This therefore qualifies as treating an ADHD student as a mere means. This can be said because the non-ADHD student is negatively affecting the end of another
One incorrect confederate made little difference to the answers, but the influence steadily increased if two or three people disagreed. The figures did not change much after this point; more confederates made little difference. The number of people in the group also made a difference; the influence of dissenting voices leveled off for groups of more than six or seven people. The experiments also showed that, even if only one other participant disagreed with the confederates, the subject was more likely to resist peer pressure; it appears to be more difficult to resist the majority if
Maximizers are people that try to make the best choice possible while satisficers tend to make choices that are “‘good enough”’. Schwartz believes that the reason maximizers are more affected by decision making is because of opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is what happens when an individual makes a choice between several other choices given limited knowledge of the outcome. Assuming the decision maker makes the best choice the “cost” of that choice is not knowing the outcome of the second best choice available. This is the factor that haunts maximizers and causes them to overthink their decisions which makes them regret their original choice.