The participants were then tested in groups of three. Sherif manipulated the composition of the group by putting together two people whose estimate was very different. Each person had to say aloud how far they thought the light had moved. Sherif found that over several trials of the movement of light, the group converged to a common estimate. The person whose estimate of movement was greatly different to the other two in the group conformed to the view of the other two.
Hitler believed that the Jews had the fault for losing World War 1 and the depression of Germany (“Altman 15”). The Armenian genocide had a persecution of Armenian people and Armenian politicians. They persecuted them because they didn’t want to vote for Ottoman’s Empire or obey it (“Armenian recognition”). What was the total coast of both genocides? The way they are similar is in both they used concentration camps to kill their victims.
Outline and evaluate research into conformity (12 Marks) Conformity is a change in behaviour due to real or imagined pressure from other people. It is also known as Majority Influence. There are 3 types of conformity which was made by Kellman (1958); compliance, internalisation and identification. Compliance is when we change our behaviour to be more like the majority but we do not privately change our minds about what we believe or how we would like to act. An example of a study that proves compliance occurs is Asch’s Line Study (1951).
These biases interrelate and tend to perpetuate someone's depression. He also suggested errors in logic could be a reason for someone to behave abnormally. This concerns the way in which someone sees an event in the past, present or future. Examples of irrational thinking that both Ellis and Beck proposed are catastrophizing (wildly exaggerating the negative aspects of an event), polarized thinking (seeing everything in extreme terms), and overgeneralization (drawing conclusions based on a single event). This approach is supported by Burt et al who asked participants to recall a list of words.
A question can substitute for a request, and while a listener is searching for an answer, the speakers can give his own answer to the question. The listener (the murderers) is more likely to accept it than if it were given as an assertion. Lastly, most of Macbeth’s questions also have suggestions in them. By posing many questions to the murderers, Macbeth is helping to persuade them. A question can substitute for a request, and while a listener is searching for an answer, the speakers can give his own answer to the question.
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, some conspiracy theorists believe that the deliberate extermination of 6 million Jews in the Nazi concentration camps is simply a conspiracy intended to discredit Hitler. They do not deny that Jews were interned in prison camps during World War II but argue that the number of deaths was greatly exaggerated. They say that the pictures of emaciated people and bodies stacked like cord wood were actually of Poles and Germans who died of typhus rather than being the victims of mistreatment. They maintain that gas chambers were just a rumor. To buy into this revisionist view one would need to discount the mountain of pictorial and first-hand witness evidence available, but that’s never stood in the way
P2 Discuss theories of communication. The communication cycle: refers to the whole process of communication, from the origin to it being understood by the right person. Effective communication involves the process of checking the other person has understood, using reflective listening. Michael Argyle was a social psychologist who researched and developed theories on interpersonal interaction and communication, he focused on both verbal and non-verbal communication. He carried out experiments to test and develop his theory.
Asch’s Conformity Experiment Conformity refers to the tendency of a person to go a long with rules or behaviors of a social or larger group, even if it is believed that the behavior is wrong, because of a desire to fit in, be correct or be liked. There have been many researchers who have studied the power of conformity, including Solomon Asch whose experiments about line judgment are famous. In these experiments, Asch sets up a situation to see if study participants would conform to a task even though they realized that the outcome was wrong. However, it is likely that the Asch experiment results do not show an accurate view of conformity in our society today. Do you think Asch’s experiment shows an accurate view of conformity in our society today?
Where did this occur? [Answer here] v. Introduce the reader to the terms group pressure/conformity and diffusion of responsibility as you will explain to them what happened. Paragraph 2/What happened? Group pressure and conformity can help explain why the participants did what they did because... i. Group pressure and Conformity: [“ This is where you will quote the textbooks definition of group
As Jones, Rock, Shaver, Goethals, & Ward’s (1968) results showed, when marking another person’s exam paper primacy effects can occur. Several other studies have also showed differing levels of primacy and recencey effects (Costabile & Klein, 2005; Smith, Greenlees, & Manley, 2009). Research also tells us that those that are highly motivated to think, will be less susceptible to the bias of order effects (Ybarra, Schaberg, & Keiper, 1999). This present research seeks to investigate whether primacy effects will occur using an end of sequence method. Also, whether primacy effects would be reduced, or non-existent in people that are highly motivated to think, compared to those that are not.