Nearly there ... Don't Panic!

So now, we're coming towards the end of the course.  The final unit "Conformity and Obedience" which has two assignments, and by now, if you've got thus far, you'll take them in your stride.  But if you can you really should get to the lessons!


Assignment 16 looks very long, but it's not that bad.  The first thing to say is that you can find just about everything you need inn the Focus book.  It's almost as if it was written with this course in mind!  There are three parts to it.  The first is about informational and normative social influence.  We look at two models and map examples of behaviour on to them.  Activity two on page 187 (guessing the page, but it's about the ladies at the golf  club and the Orson Welles play) is a good one to try, and we worked it in class if you weren't there.

These are the models we refer to. (From Gross (2005))


Next, we shall look at the autokinetic effect experiment of Sherif.  This is available on the website page (find it without a link, I'm feeling lazy!)  but also in the Focus book.  Again, try and map the experiment onto the model.


Finally, for this post, look at the Asch line size experiment.  We'll spend a lot of time on this one.  Try and map that on to one of the models - and that's a fair bit of the assignment started!


More to follow ...