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Types of and explanations for conformity - Lucas - ANSWER -Students conformed more on harder maths questions and if they had less confidence in their maths ability Conformity: Asch's research - Perrin and Spencer - ANSWER -Repeated Asch's study on engineering students, only one student conformed out of 396 trials Conformity to social roles: Zimbardo's research - Reicher and Haslam - ANSWER -Repeated the experiment on TV, the prisoners took control of the guards because they formed a group with a shared social identity Obedience: Milgram's research - Hofling - ANSWER -21 out of 22 nurses obeyed unreasonable demands from doctors Obedience: Situational variables - Bickman - ANSWER -Suit, milkman, security guard, people were twice as likely to obey security guard than the person wearing a suit Obedience: Social-psychological factors - Kilham and Mann - ANSWER -16% total obedience in Australia, 85% in Germany Obedience: Dispositional explanations - Milgram and Elms - ANSWER -Found a correlation between full obedience on Milgram's study and high score on the f-scale Resistance to social influence - Holland - ANSWER -37% of people with an internal locus of control did not fully obey compared to 23% of externals Minority influence - Moscovici - ANSWER -Group of 6 asked to say whether 36 blue slides were blue or green, 2 confederates per group who said green on 2/3 of trials, participants gave same wrong answer on 8.42% of trials, when minority disagrees, 1.25%, and when no confederates 0.25% Social influence and social change - Nolan - ANSWER -Decrease in energy use only in households told that neighbours were trying to reduce, not in households just asked to reduce Coding, capacity, and duration of memory - Baddeley - ANSWER -Acoustically/semantically dis/similar, immediate recall worst with acoustically similar, 20 mins recall worst with semantically similar The multi-store model of memory - Shallice and Warrington - ANSWER -KF could remember visual STM but not acoustic - more than one type Types of long term memory - Clive Wearing - ANSWER -Fine procedural memory, no new semantic memory, no episodic memory The working memory model - Baddeley - ANSWER -Dual task performance - more difficulty doing two visual tasks (tracking a light and describing the letter f) than a visual and a verbal Explanations for forgetting: Interference - McGeoch and McDonald - ANSWER -Learnt 10 words, learned second list, then recalled first. 2nd list was synonyms - 1.25 items recalled, unrelated adjectives - 2.1, no second list - 4.5 Explanations for forgetting: Retrieval failure - Godden and Baddeley - ANSWER -Learn list of words on land/underwater, recall on land/underwater, recall in non-matching conditions was 40% lower Factors affecting eyewitness testimony: Misleading information - Loftus - ANSWER -Video of a car crash at a stop sign, questions asked suggesting stop sign or yield sign, asked week later which they saw, control group 75% accuracy, yield group 20% group Factors affecting eyewitness testimony: Anxiety - Pickel - ANSWER -Experiment in hairdressers with scissors, chicken, handgun, and wallet. Accuracy was lower in high unusualness conditions rather than high anxiety Improving the accuracy of eyewitness testimony: Cognitive interview - Milne and Bull - ANSWER -Each of the individual aspects improves accuracy, however the combination of report everything and reinstate the context was the most effective