Conformity Flashcards
Conformity
yielding to majority influence or group pressure
Dispositional hypothesis
behaviour due to innate personality
Situational hypothesis
behaviour due to environment
Three types of conformity
Compliance
Indentification
Internalisation
Compliance
superficial agreement with group
public not private
Identification
value group so conform
prepare to change views to be part of group
Internalisation
conforming as you accept norms
private and public
Two explanations of conformity
Normative social influence
Informational social influence
Normative social influence
agreeing to be liked to not be rejected
NSI - AO3
- susceptable to individual differences
- some less concerned with being liked
NSI + AO3
nAffiliators are people who need to be liked
McGhee and Teevan - students succumb to NSI if nAffiliator
Informational social influence
unsure how to behave so look to others for guidance
based on peoples desire to be correct
ISI - AO3
Doesn’t affect everyone in the same way
ISI + AO3
Lucas et al - ppts solve maths questions easy to hard
As questions became more difficult, poor mathematicians more likely to conform and good mathematicians did not
Asch’s line jusdgement task - how many ppts
- 123 ppts