Chapter 1 Social Influence - Resistance to Social Influence Flashcards
Social support - Resisting conformity?
Conformity reduced by presence of dissenters from the group - even wrong answer breaks unanimity of majority (Asch).
Social support - Resisting obedience?
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).
Evaluation of social support - Real-world research support? S
Having a ´buddy´helps resist peer pressure to smoke (Albrecht et al.).
Evaluation of social support - Research support for dissenting peers? S
Obedience to an order from oil company fell when pts in a group (Gamson et al.)
Evaluation of social support - Social support explanation? X
Resistance lower (36% vs 64%) when confederate had poor eyesight (Allen & Levine).
Social Support - Evaluations? (SSX)
S - Real-world research support
S - Research support for dissenting peers
X - Social support explanation
Locus of control - LOC?
LOC is sense of what directs events in our lives - internal or external source (Rotter).
Locus of control - The LOC continuum?
High internal at one end & high external at the other.
Locus of control - Resistance to social influence?
Internals can resist social influence, more confident, less need for approval.
Evaluation of locus of control - Research support? S
Internals less likely to fully obey in Milgram-type procedure (Holland).
Evaluation of locus of control - Contradictory research? L
People now more independent but also more external (Twenge et al.).
Evaluation of locus of control - Limited role of LOC? X
Role of LOC only applies to new situations (Rotter).
Locus of control - Evaluations? (SLX)
S - Research support
L - Contradictory research
X - Limited role of LOC
