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Chapter 15 Social Behavior, but more in closely with Social Influence I’ve chosen to write about in my paper. I personally believe that this topic is very intriguing, and the way that we as humans can be influenced so easily, or how their behaviors can be based on obedience to a higher authority. I’ve always wanted to know why we would do or say certain things just because it was done by others. Therefore, when I learned this topic in psychology class it got me thinking, and questioning everything I have ever known. Or, sometimes by the way people can be easily persuaded by techniques. This topic is about how people can be influenced by other people or things that others are doing. In this topic social influence is worked with compliance, …show more content…
The experiment will consist of two groups; group A (control group) will be teenagers that do not know each other and from different schools, and while group B(experimental) will be teenagers that are either friends and they all go to the same school. The participants will range from 13-18 years old in both the control group and the experimental group. The experiment will be based how each person’s way to conform certain topics, scenarios, and discussions etc.; then see how often another individual will conform with that other or follow their own paths based on if they are friends or …show more content…
This will be manipulated, and I will put friends and known classmates in one group. I will have control over who goes into what group, and who does not. The Dependent variable is the answers that’s given from each teenager. This variable will be measured by the responses given after each statement, topic, or discussion. Everyone’s answer that is recorded will be based on if that teenager knows anyone in the group or not. In my experiment the experimental group is the group with the friends or people that know each other from the same school. Therefore, in the control group is the group B which does not get the special treatment, and is just used to see if I did not manipulate a group, and what those end results will turn out to become. I am measuring compliance and how well you comply based on the relation with someone or people, and decides to use social topic discussions on today’s world issues to measure the outlook on my subjects. In other words, my operational definition of compliance in this case is the way the teenagers engage in the same answers to these topics based on the persons Physical Attractiveness, Similarity, Attitudes, Background, Experiences, Appearance, and Cooperation. The participants I will be using in this experiment are 15 students from Beechcroft high school that will be in group A, and the other participants are 15 students each one from a different

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