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Chapter 6 (Midterms) Flashcards

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1
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A change in behavior or belief
as the result of real or imagined
group pressure.

Comes in two forms:
Acceptance and Compliance; overall term for
acting differently due to the influence of
others; acting or thinking differently from the way you would act and think if you were
alone

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Conformity

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Conformity that involves both acting and believing in accord with social pressure.

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Acceptance

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Conformity that involves publicly acting in accord with an implied or explicit request while privately disagreeing.

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Compliance

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A type of compliance involving acting in accord with a direct order or command.

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Obedience

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Self (auto) motion (kinetic).

The apparent movement of a stationary point of light in the dark.

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Autokinetic phenomenon

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A behavior that we share with most vertebrates; “fixed action pattern” that lasts about six seconds, with a long inward breath and shorter climactic (and pleasurable) exhalation

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Yawning

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Neurons that rehearse or mimic witnessed actions

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Mirror neurons

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Phenomenon of just being around happy people can help us feel happier

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Mood linkage

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Our natural mimicry of others’ postures and language generally elicits liking—except when echoing others’ negative expressions, such as anger

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Chameleon effect

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Suggestibility to problems that spreads throughout a large group of people.

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Mass hysteria

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4 DETERMINING FACTORS OF
OBEDIENCE

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  1. The Victim’s Distance
  2. Closeness and Legitimacy of the Authority
  3. Institutional Authority
  4. Liberating Effects of Group Influence
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A determining factor of obedience which states that it is easiest to abuse someone who
is distant or depersonalized; people act most compassionately toward those who are personalized.

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The Victim’s Distance

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A trait wherein an individual is seen as unimportant because their thoughts or feelings do no matter

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Depersonalize

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A determining factor of obedience where if the one making the command is physically
close, compliance increases; the authority must be perceived as legitimate to be obeyed.

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Closeness and Legitimacy of the
Authority

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An individual who is entitled to have its decisions and rules accepted by others.

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Legitimate Authority

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A determining factor of obedience where authorities backed by institutions wield social power.

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Institutional Authority

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A society or organization founded for a religious, educational, social, or similar purpose

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Institution

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A determining factor of obedience which states that conformity can also be constructive and be liberated.

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Liberating Effects of Group Influence

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Showing freedom from social conventions or traditional ideas

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Liberated

20
Q

When external influences override inner
convictions, attitudes fail to determine behavior.

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Behavior and Attitudes

21
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In trying to break with social constraints, we
suddenly realize how strong we are.

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Power of Social Norms

22
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6 situations/conditions which predict conformity

A

Group Size
Unanimity
Cohesion
Status
Public Response
Prior Commitment

23
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A situation/condition which predicts conformity where people conform most when three or more people, or groups, model
the behavior or belief.

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Group size

24
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A situation/condition which predicts conformity where people will usually voice their own convictions if just one other person
has also differed from the majority.

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Unanimity

25
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A situation/condition which predicts conformity where a minority opinion from someone outside the groups we identify with
sways us less than the same minority opinion from someone within our group

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Cohesion

26
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A “we feeling”; the extent to which members of a group are bound together, such as by attraction to one another.

A

Cohesiveness

27
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A situation/condition which predicts conformity where higher-status people tend to have more impact and lower-status people
tend to conform more

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Status

28
Q

A situation/condition which predicts conformity where people conform more when they must respond in front of others
rather than writing their answers privately.

A

Public response

29
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A situation/condition which predicts conformity where a prior commitment to a certain behavior or belief increases the
likelihood that a person will stick with that commitment rather than conform

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Prior commitment

30
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2 Forms of Social Influence

A

Normative influence
Informational influence

31
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Conformity based on a person’s desire to fulfill others’ expectations, often to gain acceptance.

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Normative influence

32
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Conformity occurring when people accept
evidence about reality provided by other people.

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Informational influence

33
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3 Predictors on How Conformity Varies

A

Personality
Culture
Social Roles

34
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A predictor on how conformity varies where people higher in agreeableness and conscientiousness are more likely to conform; people high in openness to experience are less likely to conform.

A

Personality

35
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People who value getting along with others

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Agreeableness

36
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People who follow social norms for neatness and punctuality

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Conscientiousness

37
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People has creativity and socially progressive thinking

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Openness

38
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A predictor on how conformity varies which states that conformity rates are higher in
collectivistic countries and more conformist times such as the 1950s.

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Culture

39
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A predictor on how conformity varies which states that social life is like acting on a
theatrical stage, with all its scenes, masks, and scripts, and those roles have much to do with conformity

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Social roles

40
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Changing oneself or empathize with people whose roles differ from their own to
intentionally play a new role and conform to its expectations.

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Role Reversal

41
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2 factors that motivate people to actively resist social pressure

A

Reactance
Asserting uniqueness

42
Q

A factor that is a motive to protect or restore
one’s sense of freedom; arises when
someone threatens our freedom of action.

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Reactance

43
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People act to protect their sense of freedom

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Theory of psychological reactance

44
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An anticonformity produced when a restrict to a person’s freedom is attempted

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Boomerang effect

45
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A factor that motivates people to actively resist social pressure where people feel better when they see themselves as moderately unique and act in ways that will assert their individuality

A

Asserting uniqueness

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