PY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Dissonance, Phalloplasty, David Reimer

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 101
• Professor: racheldelacy

Document Summary

Parti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)t (cid:862)ra(cid:374)do(cid:373)l(cid:455)(cid:863) assig(cid:374)ed to role of tea(cid:272)her or lear(cid:374)er: but they are always the teacher, learner is the confederate (person who is in on the experiment) Participants: 24 healthy male college students. Procedure: stimulated prison environment, half the boys assigned to guard and the other half assigned to prisoner, was supposed to go for two weeks but was stopped after 6 days. Compliance- agree to do things requested by others. If (cid:455)ou(cid:859)re i(cid:374) a good (cid:373)ood (cid:455)ou are (cid:373)ore likel(cid:455) to do so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g tha(cid:374) if (cid:455)ou(cid:859)re i(cid:374) a bad mood: failure to consider options. Agree (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:449)e do(cid:374)(cid:859)t thi(cid:374)k there is a(cid:374)other optio(cid:374) Compliance strategies: foot in the door effect. Start small request and then hope it will lead to the larger request: door in the face. Start with big request then go small: low balling strategy. Already committed to do something so you feel like you have to stay with it.