Conformity

Question 1

What are the 3 types of conformity?

Answer 1

• Compliance
• Identification
• Internalisation

Question 2

What is compliance?

Answer 2

• going along with a group without a change in personal opinion (definition)

Question 3

What is identification?

Answer 3

• behaviour is changed because we want to be like the influencing group (definition)

Question 4

What is internalisation?

Answer 4

• group opinion and behaviour is accepted as part of who we are (definition)
• It can occur without any particular concious effort.
• Because the individual chnages both their public and private views, it is viewed as the most permanent form of conformity

Question 5

Example from research into internalisation?

Answer 5

• Moscovici’s Colour Slide Study

Question 6

Example from research into identification?

Answer 6

• Zimbardo’s Prison Study

Question 7

Example from research into compliance?

Answer 7

• Asch’s line study