Chapter 1 Social Influence - Resistance to Social Influence

Question 1

Social support - Resisting conformity?

Answer 1

Conformity reduced by presence of dissenters from the group - even wrong answer breaks unanimity of majority (Asch).

Question 2

Social support - Resisting obedience?

Answer 2

Obedience decreases in presence of disobedient peer who acts as a model to follow - challenges legitimacy of authority figure. Obedience dropped from 65% to 10% (Milgram).

Question 3

Evaluation of social support - Real-world research support? STRONG

Answer 3

Having a ´buddy´helps resist peer pressure to smoke (Albrecht et al.).

Question 4

Evaluation of social support - Research support for dissenting peers? STRONG

Answer 4

Obedience to an order from oil company fell when pts in a group (Gamson et al.)

Question 5

Evaluation of social support - Social support explanation? WEAK

Answer 5

Resistance lower (36% vs 64%) when confederate had poor eyesight (Allen & Levine).

Question 6

Locus of control - LOC?

Answer 6

LOC is sense of what directs events in our lives - internal or external source (Rotter).

Question 7

Locus of control - The LOC continuum?

Answer 7

High internal at one end & high external at the other.

Question 8

Locus of control - Resistance to social influence?

Answer 8

Internals can resist social influence, more confident, less need for approval.

Question 9

Evaluation of locus of control - Research support? STRONG

Answer 9

Internals less likely to fully obey in Milgram-type procedure (Holland).

Question 10

Evaluation of locus of control - Contradictory research? WEAK

Answer 10

People now more independent but also more external (Twenge et al.).

Question 11

Evaluation of locus of control - Limited role of LOC? WEAK

Answer 11

Role of LOC only applies to new situations (Rotter).