Ch. 8 Comformity

Question 1

Comformity

Answer 1

a change in ones behavior due to the real or imagined influence of other people

Question 2

informational social influence

Answer 2

the influence of other people that leads us to conform because we see them as a source of information to guide our behavior; we conform because we believe that others interpretation of an ambiguous situation is more correct than ours and will help us choose an appropriate course of action

Question 3

public compliance

Answer 3

conforming to other peoples behavior publicly without necessarily believing in what the other people are doing or saying

Question 4

contagion

Answer 4

the rapid spread of emotions or behavior through a crowd

Question 5

mass psychogenic illness

Answer 5

the occurrence in a group of people of similar physical symptoms with no known physical cause

Question 6

social norms

Answer 6

the implicit or explicit rules a group has for the acceptable behaviors, values, and belief of its members

Question 7

normative social influence

Answer 7

the influence of other people that leads us to conform in order to be liked and accepted by them; this type of conformity results in public compliance with the groups beliefs and behaviors but not necessarily in private acceptance of those beliefs an behaviors

Question 8

social impact theory

Answer 8

the idea that conforming to social influence depends in the groups importance, its immediacies and the number of people in the group

Question 9

injunctive norms

Answer 9

peoples perceptions of what behaviors are approved or disapproved by others

Question 10

descriptive norms

Answer 10

peoples perceptions of how people actually behave by given situations regardless of whether the behavior is approved of by others