Conformity

Question 1

3 types of conformity

Answer 1

compliance, identification, internalisation

Question 2

compliance

Answer 2

publicly conforming to behaviours/views of others while privately maintaining your own, different views

Question 3

identification

Answer 3

publicly and privately adopting the behaviour/views of a group to identify with and fit in
temporary and not maintained after leaving group and pressure is removed

Question 4

internalisation

Answer 4

a real, premanent and usually deep change of private views to match a group

Question 5

social influence

Answer 5

process by which a person’s ttitudes, beliefs or behaviours are modified by the presence of others#

Question 6

conformity

Answer 6

process of yielding to majority influence and changing behaviour or belief as a result of real or imagined group pressure (myers)

Question 7

compliance cause, duration and depth

Answer 7

1. NSI - need to fit in
2. brief
3. shallow/superficial

Question 8

identification cause, duration and depth

Answer 8

1. need for group membership and to identify
2. determined by membership
3. somewhat deep

Question 8

internalisation cause, duration and depth

Answer 8

1. ISI - need to be right
2. long lasting
3. deepest

Question 9

2 explanations of conformity

Answer 9

• normative social influence
• informational social influence

Question 10

who proposed to two-process model to explain conformity?

Answer 10

Deutsch and Gerard

Question 11

NSI

Answer 11

NSI is when we conform to the belefs or behaviours of a group because we want to be liked and respected and fit the norm
NSI is more powerful the more stressful the situation as we have greater need for social support

Question 12

what might NSI leead to?

Answer 12

compliance

Question 13

is NSI temporary of permanent

Answer 13

temporary

Question 14

is NSI emotional or cognitive process?

Answer 14

emotional

Question 15

ISI

Answer 15

ISI occurs when we conform to the beliefs or behaviours of a group because we believe the majority to be correct when we are unsure and we want to be correct
it is more likely to occur in ambiguous /unfamiliar situations or in crises when quick action is required

Question 16

is ISI temporary or permanent

Answer 16

permanent

Question 17

is ISI a cognitive or emotional process?

Answer 17

cognitive

Question 18

what is ISI likely to lead to?

Answer 18

internalisation

Question 19

how does Lucus et al. support ISI?

Answer 19

• asked students to answer maths questions of various difficulties
• greater conformity to wrong answers when harder, especially for students who said their maths skills were poor
• showspeople conform in situations where they don’t know the answer

Question 20

outline Sherif’s study on conformity

Answer 20

• aimed to investigate group norms using autokinetic effect
• Ps given series of trials individually, where had to judge how far a (stationary) light moved
• then in goups of 3 asked to judge movement out loud
• found when alone, gave similar estimates each time and therewas variation b/w Ps
• when in groups, estimations converged until group norm appeared

Question 21

weakness of explanations of conformity

Answer 21

• doesn’t account for individual differences
• doesn’t affect everyone’s behaviour the same
• Asch found students less conformist than other groups of people
• people less concerned about what others think about them less likely to conform