Conformity

Question 1

Ambiguous

Answer 1

not clear or undecided

Question 2

Ambiguous situations

Answer 2

difficuly to understand and /or no clear answer to the task or question

Question 3

Androcentric

Answer 3

male centered study or view

Question 4

Anonymity

Answer 4

no link between the answers given and the participants names or faces - has a better chance of showing accurate conformity results

Question 5

Application

Answer 5

how it can be applied elsewhere e.g. in the real world or real situations

Question 6

Asch

Answer 6

wanted to find out the extent that social pressure could affect a person - 7 people, 1 naive - comparison lines

Question 7

Collectivist Culture

Answer 7

a group of people who prioritise the group over the individual

Question 8

Compliance

Answer 8

‘going along with others’ in public, results in only a superficial change/particular behaviour stops when pressure stops

Question 9

Conformity

Answer 9

a form of social influence where group pressure, real or imagines, results in a change in behaviour

Question 10

Converge

Answer 10

how sensory detail such as sight or touch are combined and evaluated to form peprceptions like recognising a familiar face or learning a new skill.

Question 11

Dispositional factors

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influences that are internal to the person and cannot be controlled - mood, gender, ethnicity

Question 12

Ecological validity

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a measure of how test performance predicts behaviours in the real worl in setting and situations

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Ethics

Answer 13

refers to participants rights and protecting them during a study - informed consent, deceptio, privacy, protection from harm

Question 14

Explicit pressure

Answer 14

pressure which is real or stated

Question 15

External validity

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a concept which measures how far you can generalise the results of a study in relation to other settings, situations or individuals

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Generalisability

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how likely it is that other people would behave in the same way as the participants. The more diversity there is within a sample then more generalisable the results will be

Question 17

Group size

Answer 17

factor affecting conformity - bigger the majority the higher the conformity - 2 confederates = 12.8% of the trials whereas 3 confederates = 32% conformity.

Question 18

Identification

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publicly change opinions or behaviour to be accepted by the group even if we don’t privately agree with everything (SOCIAL ROLE)

Question 19

Implicit pressure

Answer 19

pressure which is imagined ot inferred

Question 20

Individualistic culture

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a community which prioritises the individual over the collective group

Question 21

Informational social influence

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need for certainty and to be correct in a situation often associated with ambiguous situation. - you look to others ot guide your opinion/ bahviour and both publicly and privately agree - normally leads to internalisation

Question 22

Internalisation

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genuinely accepts the group norms, both privately and publicly change of opinions, usually permanent because it is internalised. Behaviour persists even in the absense of the group

Question 23

Internal validity

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degree of confidence that the thing you are investigating is not influenced by other factors or variables

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Jenness

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wanted to find out how social pressure affects conformity - 811 white beans, 101 students

Question 25

Membership group

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friendship group/family/school group

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Normative social influence

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need for acceptance and to be liked, publicly agree but privately maintain own views - normally leads to compliance

Question 27

Objectivity

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a lack of bias in opinion or judgement - remains this way throughout experiments

Question 28

Reference group

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social media, celebrity, teacher or older people

Question 29

Reliability

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how consistent the results are. If a study has already been repeated and the same results were found then the results would be reliable.

Question 30

Situational factors

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influences that are external to the person and can be controlled - task difficulty and group size.

Question 31

Social influence

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a phenomenon where an individuals behaviours, opinions or beliefs change as a result of their network ties, often becoming more similar to those with whom they are connected.

Question 32

Stooge

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or confederate - a person taking part in an experiment but knows what is going on.

Question 33

Subjectivity

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the understanding that everyone has their own perspective and beliefs which influence their judgement

Question 34

Task difficulty

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factor affecting conformity - the harder the task the higher the conformity

Question 35

Temporal validity

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type of external validity that refers to the validity of the finding in relation to the progression of time. E.g Asch (1951) - does it still apply today

Question 36

Unanimity

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the extent to which members of a majority agree with one another - variable which affects conformity.

Question 37

Validity

Answer 37

how true are the results, are the results measuring what they are meant to be and does it project the rest of society’s responses