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Experiment into obedience. Thiriet , Moradi , Siddiqui, Sheppard and Creaven (2013). Aim. To investigate obedience towards ridiculous/bizarre direct instructions via signs. Procedure . A sign was placed on a bathroom door. Participants were observed by multiple researchers and cameras.
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Experiment into obedience Thiriet, Moradi, Siddiqui, Sheppard and Creaven (2013)
Aim To investigate obedience towards ridiculous/bizarre direct instructions via signs.
Procedure • A sign was placed on a bathroom door. • Participants were observed by multiple researchers and cameras.
Why do we have so many year 8s? discuss sampling why we have so many year 8s? representative? uniquly obedient?
Handwritten signs • Second condition to our experiment • A hand-written sign was used on the same bathroom
Discussion • Difference between gender? • Difference between the official printed sign and our handwritten sign? Similar to uniform effect found in Bushman & Bickman. • What motives did our participants have? • Extraneous variables; however our design eliminates these.
Methodological and Ethical issues Methodological issues: • Observer bias • Did close door influence more than sign? • Students in groups effect their actions, this could be due to conformity and not obedience. Ethical Issues: • Couldn’t gain informative consent from the participants - this would have changed their actions. • The participants may have doubted their intelligence.