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Asch's original study Asch OriginalArticleForming Impressions Of Personality 1946.pdf Word lists

Positive List: optimistic, charismatic, hard working, intelligent, stubborn, vain

Negative List: Vain, Stubborn, intelligent, hard- working, charismatic, optimistic

Control List: Intelligent, Stubborn, charismatic, optimistic, vain, hard working



Consent form ia:

__ Consent Form __ Dear Participant, As part of my IB psychology Internal Assessment, I am carrying out a study on impression. This study is going to test how you categorize an individual based on positive and negative traits. After the briefing please sign the statement below. - I have been informed about the nature of the experiment - Any information or data will remain confidential and I have the right to withdraw from the experiment at any point - I will be debriefed at the end and have the opportunity to find out results - The experiment will be conducted so that I will not be demeaned in any way. I give my informed consent to participating in this research Name: __ Date: ___ Contact Number:_

Accurate/ revised Procedure: IA intro.doc

Reference “Primacy Effects on Impression Formation” by Young K. Lee http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych466/ykl/report.htm

Primacy and Recency in the Continous Distraction Paradigm (Alternate study) By Poltock and MacLeod http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~cmacleod/Research/Articles/jeppoltrock77.pdf

Use as reference for Asch criticism (word choice) http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych466/ykl/report.htm

Explanation for this effect http://frank.mtsu.edu/~sschmidt/Cognitive/sample_report.htm - Good stuff and lots of study citations Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) may have some info on this. Can't find any original studies for them, though.

Kevin: GUYS, we need to add one more victim to each person. We need 3 trials, a control/random, a positive list, and a negative list. Currently we have 5 ppl per person, but if we increased it to 6 ppl per person, we can do 2 controls, 2 positives, and 2 negatives each. So go do it. List (random sampling) 1. Aileen ⁃ Erika Beebe-control 7 ⁃ ashley dyer- positive 5 ⁃ Liming Tao- control 8 ⁃ Akshay Verma-positive 6

2. Bex - Cara Yun (positive) - 8 - Jeffrey Chen (positive) - 7 ⁃ Alex Thorfinnson (control) - 6 - Terrence Chu (control) - 6 3. Kevin ⁃ Robin Hong - positive - 7 ⁃ Hoichi Yeong - positive - 7 - Chimin Su - control - 9 - Jean - control - 8 4. Nathan ⁃ ShaoBo Fang - Control - 8 ⁃ Marissa Radlein - control - 7 ⁃ Conan Chua - Positive - 7 ⁃ Timothy Suh - positive - 6


 * Positive || Negative || Control ||
 * 6 || 6 || 7 ||
 * 5 || 8 || 8 ||
 * 8 || 6 || 6 ||
 * 7 || 7 || 6 ||
 * 7 || 7 || 9 ||
 * 7 || 8 || 8 ||
 * 7 || 8 || 7 ||
 * 6 || 4 || 8 ||

Type of data: ordinal, quantitative, discrete

SCRIPT Thank you for participating in our study for IB Psychology. Today we will be looking at how first impressions are made based on described traits of a person. Please answer as honestly as possible. I will read a list of six words to you that describes a fictional person. When I finish, please rate the person on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being very unlikable, and 10 being very likable. Do you have any questions? < Do the study> Debriefing Thank you for taking part in our study. We will ensure that your answers remain anonymous. Our study was looking at how the order of the given words would change how a person’s first impression is formed. Do you have any concerns or questions? Thank you for participating.

People to change into positive or control: Dylan Atkin- negative 6 Inaki - Negative 8 ⁃ Steven Saldanha (negative) - 7 **- Helen Yu (negative) - 6** **⁃ Lily Feng - negative - 7** **⁃ David Yao - negative - 8** ⁃ Ashley Loh - Negative - 8 - Isabelle Lin - Negative - 4