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Social area: Bocchiaro Flashcards

1
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Define ‘research paradigm’

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A method of testing participants

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2
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Define ‘whistle blower’

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Reporting wrong doing to higher authorities

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Define ‘personality inventory’

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Personality test

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What did Bocchiaro predict in terms of levels of obedience compared to Milgram’s study?

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That a higher percentage of participants will obey the experimenter because they substituted a softer psychological aggression than Milgram

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Why did Bocchiaro predict that there will be a relatively lower level of whistle-blowing than disobedience?

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Because it involved a potential direct confrontation of the defiant person and the authority

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Why did Bocchiaro expect that people would give a substantial overestimation of the tendency to disobey and blow the whistle?

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Because people are inclined to see themselves as better than others and they have difficulty taking into account the situational factors which may make someone obey

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Why did Bocchiaro predict that personality variables are unlikely to effect whether someone obeyed/disobeyed/blew the whistle?

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Due to the unusual and extreme situational factors, the power of individual factors will be reduced

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What research method was used?

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Lab experiment

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9
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Justify why Bocchiaro’s study was a lab experiment

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Because there were very controlled conditions

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What is a pilot study?

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A small scale study done prior to the main research

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How many pilot studies were carried out?

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8

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What was the purpose of the pilot studies?

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To ensure that the procedure was credible and morally acceptable to the participants

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Why were the pilot studies successful?

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Because post experimental interviews revealed that participants had believed the cover story

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How many people participated in the pilot studies?

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92 students from VU university

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Describe the sample used in the main study

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149 undergraduate students from VU university of Amsterdam, 96F, 53M with a mean age of 20.8 years

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How did Bocchiaro obtain the sample?

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Posters in the cafeteria advertising the study with incentive of 7€ or course credit

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17
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What sampling method was used?

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Self selecting

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18
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What is a strength of Bocchiaro’s sample?

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Large sample size of both genders

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What are 2 weaknesses of Bocchiaro’s sample?

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Only students and can be considered ethnocentric

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What is a strength of the way Bocchiaro obtained the sample?

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People had volunteered and were therefore willing to take part

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What are 2 weaknesses of the way that Bocchiaro obtained the sample?

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It may have been a biased sample with demand characteristics as they knew they were taking part in a study

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22
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Who did P’s meet in room 1?

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A Dutch experimenter who was formally dressed with a stern demeanour

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What were P’s asked to provide in room 1?

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Names of fellow students

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What was the general gist of the cover story?

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That they wanted to replicate the study from Rome whereby they looked into sensory depravation (which had negative effects on the P’s)

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What did the experimenter ask P’s to do after reading the cover story?

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To write a statement to convince the students that they had listed to take part in the study on sensory depravation

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How long did the experimenter leave room 1 for to provide reflection time for P’s?

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3 mins

27
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What was in room 2?

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A computer and a mailbox with a form for the research committee

28
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Which words were P’s required to use in their letter?

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Exciting, incredible, great, superb (positive adjectives)

29
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What were P’s not supposed to mention in their letter?

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The negative effects of sensory deprivation

30
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How long did the experimenter leave the room for P’s to write their statement?

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7 minutes

31
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What was the research committee forms for?

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For people to report the study as a bad idea and to report it for not being ethical

32
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After the 7 minutes was up, where did P’s go next?

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Back to room 1

33
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What were the names of the 2 personality inventories given to P’s in room 1?

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HEXACO-P-IR and Social value orientation (SVO)

34
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Why was SVO measured?

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Because Bocchiaro’s paradigm created a dilemma in which self-interest clashed with collective interest

35
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What were P’s probed for back in room 1?

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Suspiciousness

36
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What were P’s given by the experimenter back in room 1?

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A full debrief by the experiment

37
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What were P’s asked not to do after they had completed the task?

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Discuss the study

38
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What was the purpose of the form that P’s were given in room 1?

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To give consent for data to be used

39
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What was the purpose of the email address that the students were given in room 1?

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To contact in case they wanted to complain or ask any questions

40
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P’s responses were categorised into 3 categories, what were they?

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Obedient, Disobedient and Whistle-blower

41
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What percentage of P’s were classified as obedient?

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76.5% (114)

42
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What percentage of P’s were classified as disobedient?

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14.1% (21)

43
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What percentage of P’s were classified as whistle-blowers (open and closed)?

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Open - 3.4% (5)

Closed - 6% (9)

44
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How big was the sample for the comparison group?

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138 students

45
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What was the purpose of the comparison group?

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To compare what people say they would do/what the average person would do to what the participants actually did

46
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What percentage of people said they would obey?

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3.6%

47
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What percentage was given for the average student to obey?

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18.8%

48
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What percentage of people said they wouldn’t obey?

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31.9%

49
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What percentage was given for the average student disobeying?

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43.9%

50
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What percentage of people said they would whistle blow?

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64.5%

51
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What percentage was given for the average student blowing the whistle?

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37.3%

52
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What were the 6 dimensions of the HEXACO-PI-R?

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Honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience

53
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What were the 3 orientations that could emerge from the SVO?

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Competitive, pro social, individualistic

54
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From the results of the personality inventories, what was the only significance between whistleblowers and non-whistleblowers?

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People who blew the whistle had more faith (belief in transcendent reality)

55
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Which ethical guidelines did Bocchiaro adhere to?

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Debrief, Withdrawal, Consent

56
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Which ethical guidelines did Bocchiaro not follow?

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Deception and Protection from harm

57
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What was the main conclusion from Bocchiaro’s study?

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That behaving in a moral manner is challenging from people, even when this reaction appears to observers (the people in their comparison group) as the simplest path to follow

58
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Was the procedure standardised and replicable? (internal reliability)

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Yes - same cover story, same tests and same instructions given

59
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Was the sample large enough to suggest a consistent effect? (external reliability)

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Yes - 149 P’s

60
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Was it an accurate test of disobedience? Are there any other possible reasons for the behaviour seen? (internal validity)

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Could be measuring support for the study (not necessarily obeying)

61
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Can the sample be generalised from? (population validity)

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No - only students from Amsterdam

62
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Was the whistle-blowing scenario true to life?

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Yes for students but not for the general public

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