Conformity Flashcards

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What is conformity also known as?

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Majority influence

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What is conformity?

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Conformity is yielding to group pressure

our behavior’s and belief’s are influenced by larger groups of people

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What are the types of conformity?

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Compliance
Identification
Internalization

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Compliance

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  • a person goes along with other people’s behaviors or attitudes

-they comply publicly but their private view does not change

-they go along with beliefs to keep the peace and gain approval

-temporary when in the presence of groups

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Identification

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-individuals adjust their behavior and opinions to those of the group as group membership is desirable

-both public and private

-but is often temporary

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Internalisation

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-the individual accepts the view and believes the view to be correct

-so… conforming to other people’s beliefs both publicly and privately in the genuine belief they are correct

-permanent

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Why do people conform?

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Informational social influence

Normative social influence

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Informational social influence

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-Humans have a need for certainty (to be right)

-when uncertain they can look to others

-happens in unfamiliar situations or ambiguous situations

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Normative social influence

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-humans have a need to be liked/social groups

-agreeing with the majority view because we want to be liked, accepted or gain approval

-occurs when you fear rejection from the group/ strangers

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Issues with the suggestion of conformity?

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When psychologists proposed these suggestions…
they believed people to conform for only one of these reasons

Rather than it being more then one

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