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Types of and explanations for conformity - Lucas Students conformed more on harder maths questions and if they had less confidence in their maths ability Conformity: Asch's research - Perrin and Spencer Repeated Asch's study on engineering students, only one student conformed out of 396 trials 00:26 01:28 Conformity to social roles: Zimbardo's research - Reicher and Haslam 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 21 out of 22 nurses obeyed unreasonable demands from doctors Obedience: Situational variables - Bickman 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 16% total obedience in Australia, 85% in Germany Obedience: Dispositional explanations - Milgram and Elms Found a correlation between full obedience on Milgram's study and high score on the f-scale Resistance to social influence - Holland 37% of people with an internal locus of control did not fully obey compared to 23% of externals Minority influence - Moscovici 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 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 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 KF could remember visual STM but not acoustic - more than one type 00:01 01:28 Types of long term memory - Clive Wearing Fine procedural memory, no new semantic memory, no episodic memory The working memory model - Baddeley 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 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