Chapitre 4

Question 1

Go with the flow

Answer 1

Suivre le courant

Question 2

To be in league with the expérimenter

Answer 2

Être de mèche avec l’expérimentateur

Question 3

Whether the participants yielded or remained intependent, for the most part, they were deeply disturbed by this discrepancy between what they saw and what they believed others saw.

Answer 3

Que les participants aient cédé ou soient restés indépendants, ils ont pour la plupart été profondément perturbés par ce décalage entre ce qu’ils voyaient et ce qu’ils croyaient que les autres voyaient.

Question 4

Asch’s experiment on group pressure upon distortion of judgements

Answer 4

He investigates how and to what extent, social forces constrain people ´s opinions and attitudes.

Comparison lines

Question 5

Discrepancy

Answer 5

Divergence

Question 6

Factors affecting the degree of conformity?

Answer 6

-Asch found that the size of the opposition only has an effect up to a certain point (3 or 4 individuals answering incorrectly)
- effect of the unanimity : when introducing a supporting partner or a individual instructed to disagree with both the group and the subject
The rate of conformity was reduced.
- asch manipulated the discrepancy between the standard Line to reach a point where the error was so blatantly obvious that the subject would be sure to choose the correct answer:
Despite the exagerated difference, they were still some participants who went with the majority

Question 7

Cultural difference and conformity

Answer 7

• since Asch’s studies, the level of conformity has steadly declined.
  -literature shows that individuals from collectivist cultures,rather than individualist cultures, are more likely to YIELD to the majority, given the higher value placed on harmony in person-to-group relations.
  (See Milgram’s experiments norwegian / French-1961)
  Social cohesiveness could go with a high degree of conformity

Question 8

Milgram’s baseline experiment

Answer 8

The question : If an experimenter tells a subject to hurt another person, under what conditions will he refuse to obey?

Question 9

To obey AN authority figure

Answer 9

Obéir à une figure d’autorité

Question 10

Merely

Answer 10

Simplement

Question 11

Accuracy

Answer 11

Precision

Question 12

Batantly

Answer 12

De manière flagrante

Question 13

To yield

Answer 13

Ceder

Question 14

Steadly

Answer 14

De manière régulière

Question 15

socialization of obedience

Answer 15

L’intériorisation de la soumission

Question 16

In countless institutions

Answer 16

Innombrables institutions

Question 17

Setting

Answer 17

Établissement ou paramètre

Question 18

Two states of consciousness : the agentic state and the autonomous state

Answer 18

Agentic state: they see themselves as subordinates in an otherwise hierarchical system
Autonomous state: individuals are aware of the consequences of their actions