1. Assessment 1 Social Psychology

2. AO1 knowledge and understanding Summarise the aims and context of Milgram's (1963) research 'Behavioural study of obedience'. [12]

3. Markscheme AO1 Discussion of the importance of obedience in real life e.g. need for law and order; communal living. Discussion of atrocities between 1933-1945 - the large number of people who 'obeyed orders' to meet quotas at death camps. Aim to investigate the tendency to obey other people who are in a position of authority over them. Would people obey an authority figure to the extent that they would cause physical pain and harm to a victim if ordered to do so, violating codes of moral and ethical behaviour?

4. AO2 Analysis and Evaluation Evaluate the methodology of Asch's (1955) research 'Opinions and Social Pressure'. [12]

5. Markscheme AO2 Biases in sample (age, gender, culture), e.g. all participants male college students. Validity issues (internal and external validity), e.g. research set up lacks credibility; participants did not believe set up; does not relate to conformity in real life. Ethical Issues, e.g. the use of active and passive deception; the failure to protect participants from psychological harm. Reliability issues, e.g. replications of Asch's research have not always suggested reliability.

6. Assessment 1 Research terms

7. What do these terms mean? 1.Naive participant 2.Confederate 3.Repeated measures design 4.Control group 5.Laboratory experiment 6.Participant 7.Volunteer sample 8.Reliability

8. What do these terms mean? 1.Naive participant – person who is tricked 2.Confederate – people who know what is happening 3.Repeated measures design – tried out a number of times 4.Control group – not experimented on 5.Laboratory experiment – takes place in a lab 6.Participant – people who are experimented on 7.Volunteer sample – people choose to join 8.Reliability – dependability of results