Researchers & their studies

• Who investigated information social influence and when?

  Jennes (1932)
• What did Jennes (1932) investigate?

  Information Social Influence (how many beans in a jar)
• Who investigated normative social influence and when?

  Schultz (2008)
• What did Schultz (2008) investigate?

  normative social influence (towel re-usage at hotels)
• Who investigated conformity and when?

  Asch (1956)
• What did Asch (1956) investigate?

  conformity (comparison lines vs standard lines)
• Who investigated conformity to social roles and when?

  Zimbardo (1971)
• What did Zimbardo (1971) investigate?

  conformity to social roles (Stanford Prison Experiment)
• Who investigated obedience and when?

  Milgram (1961)
• What did Milgram (1961) investigate?

  • obedience (teacher-student shock experiment)
  • agentic state
  • factors affecting obedience (e.g. proximity, location, uniform)
• Who investigated Legitimacy of Authority and when?

  • Hofling et al. (1966)
  • Bickman (1974)
  • Kilham & Mann (1974)/Mantell (1971)
• What did Hofling et al. (1956) investigate?

  legitimacy of authority (nurses administering unknown medication)
• What did Bickman (1974) investigate?

  Legitimacy of Authority (effect of uniform on obedience)
• Who investigated the Agentic State and when?

  • Milgram Variation (1961)
  • Blass and Schmidt (2001)
• What did Blass & Schmidt (2001) investigate?

  Agentic state (showed students videos of Milgram's study and asked them to identify who was responsible)
• What did Kilham & Mann (1974)/Mantell (1971) investigate?

  Legitimacy of Authority (Milgram variation in Australia - 16% full voltage, & Germany - 85% full voltage)
• Who investigated the Authoritarian personality and when?

  Adorno (1950)
• What did Adorno (1950) investigate?

  Authoritarian personality ( F scale questionnaire)
• Who investigated social support and when?

  Allen & Levine (1971) - Asch variation w/ additional ally

  Milgram variation (1961) - confederate who refused to shock
• Who investigated Locus of Control and when?

  Holland (1967)
• What did Holland (1967) investigate?

  Locus of Control (Milgram variation but determined if participants were internals or externals beforehand)
• Who investigated Consistency in Minority Influence and when?

  Moscivici (1969)
• What did Moscivici (1969) investigate?

  consistency in minority influence (colour perception task)
• Who investigated Flexibility in Minority Influence and when?

  Nemeth et al. (1986)
• What did Nemeth (1986) investigate?

  Flexibility in minority influence (ski-left compensation)
• Who investigated barriers to social change?

  Bashir et al. (2013)
• What did Bashir et al. (2013) investigate?

  Barriers to social change (environmental activists & feminist stereotypes prevent people joining in)
• Who investigated Encoding in memory and when?

  Baddeley et al. (1966)
• What did Baddeley investigate and when?

  • STM and LTM encoding (1966)
  • VSS & PL (dual performance task) - 1975
  • Capacity of the PL (word length effect) - 1975
• Who investigated the capacity of STM and when?

  • Jacobs (1887)
  • Miller (1956)
• What did Jacobs (1887) investigate?

  the capacity of STM (digit span test)
• What did Miller (1956) investigate?

  capacity of STM --> 7+-2 items
• Who investigated the duration of the STM and when?

  Peterson & Peterson (1959)
• What did Peterson & Peterson (1959) investigate?

  duration of STM (nonsense trigrams)
• Who investigated duration of LTM and when?

  Bahrick et al. (1975)
• What did Bahrick et al. (1975) investigate?

  duration of LTM (free-recall vs photo-recognition test)
• Who investigated duration of the sensory register and when?

  Crowder (1993)
• What did Crowder (1993) investigate?

  duration of sensory register (diff times for diff senses)
• Who investigated the Primary & Recency effect?

  Glanzer & Cunitz (1966)
• What did Glanzer & Cunitz (1966) investigate?

  primary & recency effect (first and last best remembered)