CH 6: Conformity & Obedience Flashcards
What would western culture describe social influence as?
-Conformity
What would eastern culture describe the same type of actions to fit into a group?
-Communal Sensitivity
What is Acceptance?
-Truly believing in the group’s decisions
What is Compliance?
-Conformity to publicly go along w/ the group while privately disagreeing
(pretending to go along with a group)
What is the Autokinetic Phenomenon?
-The apparent motion of a stationary point in the dark
What does coughing, laughing, & yawning in response to other have in common?
-They all signal Suggestibility
Why does Conformity have negative connotation in western cultures?
-It is seen as giving into peer pressure & not reflecting the western individualistic culture
What is Obedience?
-Acting in accord w/ a direct order
What is Mass Hysteria?
-Suggestibility to problems that spread throughout a large group of people
What is the Chameleon Effect?
-It explains that when working in groups people tend to share up & down moods and copy each other’s nonverbal actions (facial expressions)
What is found about the Autokinetic Phenomenon & how long it persisted?
-It persisted through 5 generations
What does Mimicry incline you to do?
-It inclines you to like the people who mirror your own behavior
What do Mirror Neurons do?
- Mimic witnessed actions
- Automatically copy the behaviors we see in the world around us
When does Copycat Suicide occur?
-When suicides increase after a highly publicized suicide
What are the 3 characteristics of Mimicry?
- Increases liking
- More likley to be helpful
- Enhances social bonds
What did Ach’s experiment assess?
-Whether individuals could overcome the urge to conform when perceiving the length of lines
What percentage of the participants in Ach’s study didn’t confirm when the rest of the group have incorrect answers?
63%
What were the 4 verbal prods used to make the “Teacher” continue the high voltage experiment?
- Please continue (go on)
- The experiment requires that you continue
- It is absolutely essential that you continue
- You have no other choice, you must go on
What percentage of people DID conform to Ach’s experiment?
37%
In milgrams shock experiment, what populations said that they would disobey by 135 volts?
- College students
- Psychiatrists
- Middle-Class adults
When burger replicated Milgrams experiment in 2009. what percentage of people were still obeying?
70%= slight decrease than the previous 84%
67% obeyed to 150 volts
What are the 4 factors that determined obedience in milgram’s shock experiment?
- Authority’s closeness & legitimacy
- Institutional respectability
- Disobedient fellow participant
- Victim’s emotional distance
In milgram’s experiment, What percentage continued to obey when participants were forced to place their hand on the shock plate?
30%
What happened to the obedience percentage when the milgram’s experimenter gave command shocks by telephone?
It dropped to 21%
