PSYC 1133 Introduction to Psychology – Terms‚ Topics‚ and Persons The following key terms‚ topics‚ and persons will be included in class instruction and on quizzes and exams. It is your responsibility to identify them in your text and be knowledgeable of them in preparation for online quizzes and in-class exams. The more you relate these terms‚ topics‚ and people to your current memory (by association) the better you will understand them and be able to retrieve them for exams. Some quiz items
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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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easy? Many people would like to think that‚ if put in a certain situation‚ they would always do the right thing no matter the circumstances. However‚ social experiments such as the Good Samaritan Experiment (Darley and Batson‚1973)‚ the Milgram Shock Experiment (1963)‚ and the Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo‚1973) give psychologists results that say otherwise. The majority of the unknowing participants in these three experiments showed a surprising lack of compassion for a fellow human
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CHAPTER 3 Ethics in Research Historical Background Maintain Privacy and Confidentiality Ethical Principles Protecting Research Subjects Avoid Harming Research Participants Obtain Informed Consent Avoid Deception in Research‚ Except in Limited Circumstances I Maintaining Honesty and Openness Achieving Valid Results Encouraging Appropriate Application Conclusion magine this: One spring morning as you are drinking coffee and reading the newspaper‚ you notice a small ad for a psychology experiment
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As human beings‚ we possess different qualities that influences the way we behave. Throughout history‚ psychologists performed a myriad of experiments to understand different forms of human behavior. One well known psychologist named Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment that concentrated in understanding “destructive obedience”. Milgram’s interest in researching “destructive obedience” came from the Holocaust. “Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political
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feel accepted. (Russell‚ 2011). Stanley Milgram is acclaimed for his achievement with obedience to authority. “The Perils of Obedience‚” examined whether common individuals would obey an authoritative figure‚ while informing them to inflict harm on other individuals. Milgram recruited forty male participants through advertising‚ thus partaking in an analysis for approximately four dollars to determine how punishment affects learning. Milgram implemented an aggressive shock generator with
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simply; how do people form impressions of theirs based on limited information. The founder of research into this field was Asch (1946)‚ who was worried about the principles behind forming impressions. Asch (1946) conducted a study where‚ he had two groups‚ in which both were given lists of words in different orders according to which group the participants were assigned to. Asch found that the group given the positive words followed by the negative words developed a more positive first impression
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Charles A. and Jennifer A. Chatman. 1996. "Culture as social control: corporations‚ culture and commitment." Research in Organizational Behavior 18: 157-200. Schein‚ Edgar H. 1991. “The role of the founder in the creation of organizational culture.” Pp. Sherif‚ M. 1935. “A study of some social factors in perception.” Archives of Psychology‚ No 187. Sørensen‚ Jesper B. 2002. “The strength of corporate culture and the reliability of firm performance.” Administrative Science Quarterly 47: 70-91. Zucker‚ Lynne
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Outline and assess the use of experiments in social psychology drawing on the cognitive social perspective and one of the other three perspectives in the module (discursive psychological‚ phenomenological or social psychoanalytic). Traditional experimental psychology has been criticised on the grounds of its objectivity and natural scientific human approach to research. The alternative paradigm has been suggested that favoured human scientific approach. One of the main differences between
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Role of Race and Gender in Military Success This review focuses on the factors that may lead some to wonder if race and gender play a factor in the military when it comes to leadership and promotion opportunities. It is a known fact that the military is a male dominated organization which tends to define what a person is in order to know how to react towards that person. In total‚ there are 1‚166‚434 (85.1%) male active duty members and 203‚895 (14.9%) female active duty members. Within those
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