Key terms
Agentic State: acting as agent of authority figure, conscience suppressed, possible moral strain, defers responsibility to authority figure.
Autonomous state: acting of own free will, as individual, accepting responsibility, active conscience.
Apllication to Nazis
Studies
Milgram
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administering increasing powerful shocks. 65% to 450V
Hofling
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Hofling's study with nurses and the drug astroten. ordered to give overdose. 95% did.
Meeus and Raaijmakers
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psychological violence instead of physical. 15 increasingly distressing remarks. 92% made all 15.
Prejudice
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prejudice: preconceived opinion based on external factor such as age race religion etc
Social identity Theory
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Tajfel.
social categorisation : in-group/out-group.
social identification: accepting group norms
social comparison: putting out group down to boost in group self esteem.
Studies
Sherif
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boys in a summer camp.
ingroup favouritism. friction reduced by superordinate goals.
Jane elliot (optional)
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Blue eyes brown eyes. class teacher.
discrimination
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treating someone differently because of prejudice
What's the difference?
Prejudice = thought
Discrimination = action
Research methods
sampling
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random: everyone equal chance
stratified: classifying the population into groups and then taking samples proportional to the size they are within the target population.
opportunity: whoever is around at the time
volunteer: as suggests.
open and closed
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open: in depth, increases validity, harder to analyse as produces qualatitative
closed: yes/no etc, reduces validity, narrow artificial. produces quantitative.