Outline and Evaluate one or more explanations of why people obey It has been found by Milgram that people obey for four main reasons these are; legitimate authority‚ the momentum of compliance‚ the agentic shift and passivity. The first reason that Milgram found that people obey is because people feel like they have to obey someone if they have a high social status or a highly respected job‚ this is called legitimate authority. Bickman (1974) supported this theory by doing an experiment on the
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“Outline and evaluate fators that affect eating behaviours.” There is huge debate as to which factors affect the eating behaviours of an individual. A key issue is whether our food choices are down to innate behaviours and our genetics or whether they are an outcome of the environment in which we are brought up in‚ such as our cultures and socio-economic circumstances. One key factor which affects our food choices is our mood. It is generally accepted that food can be comforting when we feel upset
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changes their behaviour in order to match certain social or group norms. This change of behaviour is a private and enduring change of someone’s conduct due to group pressure that is not forced in a direct manner such as the way that compliance is‚ but is instead a personal choice to behave like certain others in order to prevent negative feelings that may come from the resistance to various social norms. Zimbardo and Lieppe (1991) describe conformity as a “change in belief or behaviour in response
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Outline and Evaluate research into privation AO1 Privation is when a child has the right to form an attachment to a primary care giver taken away from them; the option to make these crucial attachments isn’t there. If Bowlby’s theory is correct‚ then because of this inability to form attachments‚ infants should grow up struggling to form relationships and attachments to anyone else. AO1 P: Evidence looking at the effects of privation comes from the case of Genie. E: She was 13 years old
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Ira Turner Professor Robert Spencer English 101-E111 18 September 2014 To obey or not obey‚ that is the question? A summary of a piece written by Erich Fromm Erich Fromm (1900-1980) was a noted psychoanalyst‚ philosopher‚ historian‚ and sociologist that lived a long life over some very troubled times in the history of the world. He authored more than 30 books and was a studier of Freud and Marx‚ both offering different insights on the subject matter of Fromm’s piece “Disobedience as a Psychological
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Obedience is when an individual responds to an order from an authority figure. A key study that has looked into research is one carried out by Milgrams in 1963. The aim of the experiment was investigate whether ordinary people will obey a legitimate authority figure even when required to injure an innocent person. Milgrams recruited 40 male participants by advertising for volunteers to take part in his study. Each participant would be paid $4.50. The experiment consisted of one ‘real’ participant
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Outline and evaluate the role of neural mechanisms in eating behaviour AO1: One way in which eating behaviour is controlled is by a process called homeostasis. This involves mechanisms which both detect the state of the internal environment and also correct the situation to restore that environment to its optimal state. The body has evolved two separate systems‚ one for turning eating on and another for turning it off. Glucose levels play an important role in producing feelings of hunger. When
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Outline and evaluate research into maternal deprivation. (18 marks) Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis suggests that bond disruption between the infant and caregiver in the early years can have detrimental and irreversible effects on the intellectual‚ social‚ and emotional development of the child. He carried out the study on 44 juvenile thieves (that were transferred to his institution)‚ whom he compared to a group of 44 controls. It was a retrospective study using interviews and questionnaires
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Asch carried out an experiment in 1951 to investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform. Asch used a lab experiment‚ where 50 male students from a college in the USA participated in a ‘vision test’. Using a line judgement test‚ one of the more naïve participants was put in a room with 7 confederates. The confederates had agreed in advance what their responses would be involving the line task. The real participant didn’t know this‚ and was led
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Outline and evaluate research into encoding in memory (8) A study by Baddeley was conducted in 1966. He did two experiments looking into the STM and LTM. In these two studies he gave participants four lists of words. These were a list where the words were acoustically similar another where they were acoustically different and one where they were semantically similar and the last where they were semantically different. They were read the lists and then given an interference task for 20 seconds
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