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Moscovici
Psychology AS AQA case studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Moscovici's Blue/green slide study testing? | Minority influence |
| What were moscovici's proceures? | groups of 6 females, 2 confederates. Given eye tests. Each gave judgement outloud about 36 blue slides, confederates consistently said green. They repeated reporting awnsers later individual.In another confederates inconsistently said green for 24 slides. |
| Moscovicis Findings? | Participents agreed 8.5%. 32% agreed atleast once. Greater agreements with confederates in privete. Confederates inconsistent agreement 1.25% |
| Moscovicis conclusion? | Minoritys influence to small degree. Greater influence privatly. Consistency is important. |
| Criticisms of moscovici. | -bias the sample all female undergrad's in majority of 4 can't generalise. -Artificial task of no importance doesn't reflect real life so low ecological validity. -Flexibility of minority more important than consistency? |