BADM 312: Final Study Guide Anything that is in the readings or that we covered in class is fair game for the exam. This should give you a general idea of where you may want to focus your study. The problem of politics and power 1. Understand what power is (a function of…) a. A function of resources‚ dependencies‚ and alternatives 2. What are individual bases of power? a. Legitimate power (position) b. Expert Power c. Reward power d. Coercive power (ability
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Discuss Research Into Obedience (12 marks) Milgram did a lab experiment‚ varying different situational pressures to see which had the greatest effect on obedience. He told 40 male volunteers that it was a study of how punishment affects learning. After drawing lots‚ the real participant was assigned the role of ’teacher’. The learner was a confederate. The teachers job was to administrate a learning task and deliver ’electric shocks’ to the learner (in another room) if he got a question wrong
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norms. Culture is one such factor‚ if you look at a collectivist society individuals are more likely to conform more than in an individualistic society. The study carried out by Bond and smith (1993) consisted of 133 conformity studies including Asch paradigm‚ it was a Meta analysis. The results of the study showed that 14%of Belgium students conformed where as 58
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imitation of aggressive models. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology‚ 63‚ 575-82. http://www.le.ac.uk/oerresources/media/ms7500/mod1unit2/page_03.htm McLeod‚ S. A. (2008). Asch Experiment - Simply Psychology. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html Perrin‚ S. & Spencer‚ C. (1980) The Asch effect: a child of its time? Bulletin of the British Psychological Society‚ 32‚ 405-406. http://www.simplypsychology.org/bobo-doll.html
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Outline and evaluate research into obedience (Milgram) Milgram carried out a series of studies to try to shed some light on the aspect of human behaviour. He studied a thousand participants who were representative of the general population. He discovered that under certain situational influences most of us would conform to what is needed to be done. His study of obedience was done in a lab in Yale University and the experimenter wore a long grey coat which reinforced his authority and status. Then
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Stanley Milgram is a 20th century social psychologist who conducted research into social influence and persuasion. His experiments on obedience remain some of the most frequently cited and controversial in the history of the field. Brown‚ R. (1986)‚ “Social psychologist Stanley Milgram researched the effect of authority on obedience. He concluded people obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative--even when acting against their own better judgment and desires.” He argues that
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The Lucifer Effect: A Book Review The Lucifer Effect is a novel that focuses on the sole question‚ “What makes good people do bad things?” a question the book’s author‚ Phillip Zimbardo‚ is eager to answer. Throughout the novel‚ Zimbardo focuses on explaining the theories behind our senses of conformity and our perceptions of humanity through interweaving psychological theory and experimentation with real world examples. Such can be observed with the chapters dedicated to the Stanford Prison
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the nature of obedience is often portrayed in the media as strong evidence for an innate human predisposition to obedience‚ “resistance is futile” (Parker‚ 2007) when it comes to the human condition to obey – even in a “destructive” (Milgram‚ 1963) sense. As Milgram (1963) himself states‚ obedience as a concept is one of the most fundamental aspects of society‚ and much has frequently been made of drawing parallels with the atrocities carried out by the Third Reich and the data produced by Milgram’s
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following World War 2‚ the subject became a popular one for researchers fascinated by the amount of obedience shown by the German soldiers in Nazi Germany when faced with orders that resulted in the torture and deaths of millions of Jews. Stanley Milgram‚ a Jew himself‚ decided that the only way to prevent any further occurrence of the Holocaust was to understand why the German soldiers had apparently blindly followed orders. The ‘Germans are different’ hypothesis Some commentators believed that
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Phillip Hallie says “cruelty… is a kind of power relationship‚ an imbalance of power wherein the stronger party becomes the victimizer and the weaker becomes the victim” (Hallie 8). Hallie’s definition of cruelty derives from Frederick Douglass’s autobiography where he discusses the origins of slavery and the importance of dignity. Hallie characterizes cruelty in two ways: episodic and institutionalized. In episodic cruelty “the victim knows he is being hurt‚ and his victimizer knows it too” while
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