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Question 4

A social psychologist investigated factors affecting obedience. The table below shows the percentages of participants who complied with three different requests made by an experimenter under two conditions: wearing an official security uniform, and wearing casual clothing (jeans and a t-shirt).

Table 1: Compliance rates by experimenter attire and request type

RequestOfficial security uniformCasual clothing
Complete a 15-minute unpaid survey about personal spending habits76%38%
Allow the experimenter to search their personal backpack55%15%
Pick up a dropped pen and hand it back to a passerby98%97%

What do these results suggest about obedience?

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Obedience Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Obedience

73 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Psychology Obedience. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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