Introducing an ally who resisted the majority caused conformity levels to drop sharply (5%). The presence of an ally makes an individual feel more confident and better able to stand up to the majority. Asch also discovered that people are better able to resist pressure to conform if the decision has a moral dimension. For Asch’s participants, the costs of conforming were not particularly great given the insignificance of the task. However if the behaviour is judged as immoral such as joining others in cheating there is less evidence of conformity as the costs are perceived as greater.
A VO2 max score can be calculated using the equation VO2 max = 88.768-(0.0957*wt)-(.3877*age)+(8.892*gen)-(1.4537*t)-(.1194*hr). Using this equation my VO2 max calculation came out to be 67.26. In our class, the average VO2 max for the male and female students were 66.64 and 56.59 respectively. This shows women have lower VO2 max than men. My calculation is above average which means I have slightly better VO2 max than the average male students in our class.
The following is my evaluation of Table 3.1 Data: The education predictor has very low correlation with citizenship and absence measures. Citizenship is shown to be positive and absence is shown to be negative; however, they are both close to 0. On the contrary, the correlations between education and the performance and promotion potential are slightly higher than citizenship and absence, but they are still undesirably low. Out of these 4 measures, the correlation between education and promotional potential is considered to be the highest because education can definitely predict a future employee’s promotion potential. Promotion potential has a p value of <.01 which makes it statistically significant.
Having said this, the study was still well controlled and systematic. An issue with this study is that there are gender differences. Only male students were used in the sample so there is little generalisablility. It was found that women are generally more compliant than men in a meta-analysis. However, materials used were more familiar to males than females and therefore the role of confidence may have had an effect on the conformity levels of females.
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?
We made this inference due to our slope of each of the graphs. Given the mole ratios, the slope of our newer lab, comparing H2 to moles of Mg, should’ve been a slope of 1. But our first point skewed our results giving us an actual slop of 0.7, which was short from a more accurate result. And given our results last week, we concluded that our titration method was more accurate than our crystallization method due to the basically perfect slope of 2.0018 which is very close to the theoretical slope of 2. 5.
5. Which group's test scores had the least amount of variability or dispersion? Provide a rationale for your answer. Ans: The control group had the least amount of variability (SD 10.34) because the control group was not provided the same resources that the experimental group was provided. 6.
Despite the limitations found in the BCDTC, the findings of the research proved that subjects who participated in the DTC were less likely to be rearrested than the control group. The failure rate for DTC subjects was 66.2%. Failure rates for non-DTC subjects were 81.3% (Gottfredson, 2003).
Joyce Adams 10-26-2014 PSY 460 Grand Canyon University Instructor: Professor Melanie Lenow Building Self-Esteem Disorder's What is self-esteem? Self-esteem reflects a person's overall emotional evaluation of his or her own worth. It is a judgment of oneself as well as an attitude toward the self. There are health self-esteem and non-healthy self-esteem. There are individuals who put an identity on self-esteem with words like conceit, arrogant, selfishness, vanity, a feel of supremacy, a feature guiding to behavior cruelty.
As pointed out in the case she was more qualified than the chosen applicant due on the bases that the plaintiff had “better performance evaluations and that the younger worker actually supposedly determinative of eligibility for promotion, like attendance” (Twomey, 2010, pg. 538), than the chosen applicant. 3) The plaintiff was dismissed despite being qualified. 4) The replaced by a person sufficiently younger to permit an inference of age discrimination. Although, the chosen candidates age was not revealed in the readings it is safe to assume based on the outcome that they were younger than the