AICE Psychology - Social Psychology Test Correctly Answered.
Describe two features of the experiment by Milgram that may explain the high levels of obedience he found. - CORRECT ANSWER Most likely from a long list including: 1. done at Yale University; 2. experiment has a worthy purpose - learni...
AICE Psychology - Social Psychology
Test Correctly Answered.
Describe two features of the experiment by Milgram that may explain the high levels of obedience he
found. - CORRECT ANSWER Most likely from a long list including: 1. done at Yale University; 2.
experiment has a worthy purpose - learning and memory; 3. participant has volunteered; 4. participant
feels obliged; 5. participant is paid; 6. teacher-learner random so both had equal chance; 7. participants
told 'painful but not dangerous'; 8. the 'prods'.
In the prison simulation study by Haney, Banks and Zimbardo:
(a) What was the dispositional hypothesis that was proposed?
(b) To what extent did the results of the study support the dispositional hypothesis? - CORRECT ANSWER
(a) The dispositional (within people) hypothesis is 'the deplorable condition of our penal system (and its
dehumanising effects upon prisoners and guards)' owing to the nature of the people who administrate it
or the nature of the people who populate it, or both. Guards are 'sadistic, uneducated and insensitive'.
Nothing is wrong with the prison itself (situational attribution).
(b) Most likely: no, dispositional not supported. 'Normal' participants behaved as they did because of
the situation they were in.
Piliavin, Rodin and Piliavin tested the 'diffusion of responsibility' hypothesis in their subway Samaritans
study.
(a) To what extent did the findings of the study support the 'diffusion of responsibility' hypothesis?
(b) Suggest one explanation for the findings of the study. - CORRECT ANSWER (a) Most likely: finding did
not support the hypothesis as there was no diffusion of responsibility.
(b) Most likely: 1. no diffusion of responsibility as participants were face-to-face with victim. 2.
participants made cost/benefit decision.
All studies in psychology raise ethical issues. Outline two ethical issues in the study by Tajfel (intergroup
categorisation). - CORRECT ANSWER Most likely: confidentiality, deception, harm, right to withdraw,
debriefing. Issues do not have to be broken.
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