Conformity Flashcards
True or False: Asch wondered whether people would act on what they believe to be the case.
True
About ____ of subjects agreed with the majority at least once.
75%
People conform because they believe others are correct in their judgments is called?
Informational Influence
People conform because they fear the consequences of appearing deviant.
Normative Influence
What was Aschs experiment?
After the subject sat down, the experimenter put up a card with a line on it and asked the subjects to call out their answers of which line matched the standard line.
True or False :For us, the real way to interpret this experiment is that even in an independent culture conformity can still exert such a pull that 75% of people will at least once go against the evidence of their senses in order not to appear to differ from a group of strangers.
True
In short, conformity is a powerful tool of ________.
socialization
On application of this is that advertising can ……
interact with observational learning to normalize a behavior.
How do you Break Conformity?
If someone disagrees from the group, others are more likely to as well.
One implication of this can be that one should be…..
less afraid to state one’s beliefs because this may in turn cause others who might not have to state their beliefs.
In his ______, Mill extols the virtues of having a diversity of opinion and protecting freedom of belief.
On Liberty
Who’s argument created the first amendment?
J.S Mills argument is what also underlies the first amendment to the constitution.
If you want to see the importance of the First Amendment, imagine if the government tried to mandate a particular translation of
the Bible.
Who wrote “If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person of contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind” ?
J.S. Mills
