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.
Essay Plan Biological Explanations of Schizophrenia 1. Describe in some detail the genetic factors- family studies- Gottesman found that schizophrenia is more common among biological relatives of a person with schizophrenia and also that the closer the degree of genetic relatedness, the greater the risk. For instance, children with 2 schizophrenic parents have a concordance rate of 46%, children of one schizophrenic parent 13% and siblings 9%. Although this could be due to common rearing patterns or other factors not relating to heredity. Twin studies- Joseph calculated concordance rates of 40.4% for MZ twins and 7.4% for DZ twins.
Discuss how the economic environment in the US culture was changing. How did the changes affect the toy industry and Gilbert? There was a higher demand for low cost, low quality toys that A.C. Gilbert couldn’t compete, until the point where the company introduced 50 new toys for different age groups and toys for girls and preschool children. Although the company tried to change and adapt to the rapidly changing industry, their low quality toys hurt the company a lot, because of the high return rate on some of the poorly built toys. 5.
The mice with anti-IL-17 were had lower IL-17 levels, higher levels of A. fumigatus as measured by rRNA both at 24 and 48 hours versus the isotope mice without neutralized IL-17. Sample size was small and could have been larger. This experiment could have been better designed. Perhaps a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled design would better validate the results. P values were only cited in some of the results.
And according to our data, our actual yield is 0.5g CaCO3. Thus, our percent yield is 73.5%. Our percent yield was close to 100%, but not very close. I believe the error lies in human error, as well as instrumentation sensitivity. Our scale only measures to grams accurately, and could have not accurately represented the .68g of CaCO3, or we could have lost the solid precipitate in the process of the experiment.
The nature-nurture debate is all about whether genetics (nature) or our environment (nurture) is responsible for our behaviour and development. Early theorists believed that our personality, intellect, behaviour and gender role were determined by our genes and therefore could not be changed. But an increasing amount of evidence has proved these theorists wrong, and our development as an individual is learnt through the environment we live in. One developmental stage of an individual that psychologists have the nature-nurture debate about is the intelligence stage. The nature side of that intelligence is present at birth and we already have a set amount of intelligence.
Because of the way the disease is inherited, it is much more likely for a male to obtain the disease because they have only one X chromosome, whereas females have two so it would be more difficult for them to receive it on both of their chromosomes. According to the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, more than half of the cases of Duchenne disorder are inherited from the mother. This is because it is likely for a mother to be a carrier by the gene, but they are not typically affected by the disorder. Looking at it that way, the son of a carrier has a fifty-fifty chance of being affected while the daughter has a fifty-fifty chance of being a carrier alone. According to the same source, quite a small amount of female carriers experience a very small degree of muscle weakness
Researchers suspect that the caudate nuclei form perform this selection function poorly with those with OCD. As suggested by the high level f frontal lobe activity revealed in PET scans, obsessional thinking then persists, often until a compulsive ritual puts an end to it. | One strength of the brain dysfunction theory comes from further empirical support provided by Comer (1998) who suggests that because serotonin plays a key role in the OFC and caudate nuclei, it is likely that low levels of serotonin cause these areas to function poorly. This suggests that there is wider academic credibility for a causal effect between serotonin and regions of the brain. A second strength of the brain dysfunction theory is that it has
At least 75% of the subjects gave the wrong answer to at least one question, although experimental error may have had some influence on this figure. There was no doubt, however, that peer pressure can cause conformity. It was debated whether this is because people disbelieve the evidence of their own eyes or if it was just compliance, that people hide their opinions. Follow ups to the Asch Experiment showed that the number of dissenting voices made a difference to the results, as did the forcefulness of the confederates. One incorrect confederate made little difference to the answers, but the influence steadily increased if two or three people disagreed.
However the study had low ecological validity as it was not representative of everyday memory demands. Trigrams are meaningfulness information and so may be remembered less well than meaningful information showing that the Peterson and Peterson study lacked mundane realism. STM and LTM also differ in terms of capacity, psychologists believe that LTM has potentially unlimited capacity. The capacity of STM, however, has a very limited capacity. George Miller (1956) concluded that the span of immediate memory is 5-9 items.