Social Psychology

Who was Kitty Genovese?

What was the aim of Piliavin's study?

Where and when did Piliavin's experiment take place?

Who were Piliavin's participants?

How did they board the train in Piliavin's study?

How long was each trial in Piliavin's study?

Who were the victims in Piliavin's study and what were the conditions they could be in?

Who were the models in Piliavin's study and what were the conditions they could be in?

What did the observers make note of in each of Piliavin's trials?

What was the general findings on helping behavior in Piliavin's study?

What did Piliavin find in relation to the victims experimental conditions?

What trends emerged in the spontaneous helpers of Piliavin's study?

What did Piliavin find in relation to the impact of modelling?

What did Piliavin find in relation to group size?

What did Piliavin conclude?

How can Piliavin's results be explained in terms of a cost-reward model?

What was Milgram's aim?

Who were Milgram's participants?

Who played the role of the experimenter in Milgram's study?

Who played the role of the learner in Milgram's study?

Where did Milgram's study take place?

What were the participants told the aim of Milgram's study was?

What happened when the participant met with the 'confederate participant'/learner in Milgram's study?

How was the participant shown the electric chair and what enforced their belief that it was real?

What did the experimenter say to the participants whilst the learner was being strapped in the chair?

Describe the shock generator used in Milgram's study.

What was the procedure of the learner's 'test' in Milgram's study?

How was the learner trained to respond to the questions in Milgram's study?

In Milgram's study, what responses did the experimenter give when the participant asked for advice?

How did Milgram control for psychological harm after his study?

What were Milgram's results on obedience?

What behavioral observations showed that the participants in Milgram's study were under a large amount of stress.

What factors did Milgram believe to be the cause of the high level of obedience?

What was the aim of Reicher and Haslam's study?

What is tyranny?

Who were Reicher and Haslam's participants?

How were Reicher and Haslam's participants divided?

How did Reicher and Haslam take ethics into consideration?

How did the living conditions of prisoners and guards differ in Reicher and Haslam's study?

What were the three planned independent variables in Reicher and Haslam's study?

What was the permeability independent variable in Reicher and Haslam's study?

What was the legitimacy independent variable in Reicher and Haslam's study?

What was the cognitive alternatives independent variable in Reicher and Haslam's study?

What were the dependent variables measured in Reicher and Haslam's study?

What were Reicher and Haslam's results for Social Identification?

What were Reicher and Haslam's results for Legitimacy and Security?

What were Reicher and Haslam's results for Cognitive Alternatives?

What were Reicher and Haslam's results for Organisational and Clinical measures?

What were Reicher and Haslam's results for combined impact?

What were Reicher and Haslam's results for Authoritarianism?

Why was Reicher and Haslam's study ended prematurely?

What did Reicher and Haslam conclude?