Conformity

Question 1

Conformity

Answer 1

Yielding to group pressure

Question 2

Compliance

Answer 2

Publicly not privately going along with majority influence

Question 3

Identification

Answer 3

Publicly and privately acceptance of majority

Usually temporary

E.g. In the army

Question 4

Internalisation

Answer 4

Public and private acceptance

Genuinely adjusts their behaviour and opinions

Question 5

ISI

Answer 5

Informative social influence - motivational force to look for others in order to be correct

Question 6

NSI

Answer 6

Motivational force to be liked and accepted

Question 7

Cognitive dissonance

Answer 7

Unpleasant feelin of anxiety created by holding two contradictory ideas

Question 8

Confederates

Answer 8

Individuals who pretend to be participants

Question 9

Situational variables

Answer 9

Features of an environment that affect conformity

Question 10

Individual variables

Answer 10

Personal characteristics that affect the degree to which individuals yield to group pressures

Question 11

Social roles

Answer 11

Parts individuals play as members of a social group

Question 12

De individualisation

Answer 12

Where individuals have lower self awareness and a weaker sense of personal responsibility

Question 13

Dehumanisation

Answer 13

Degrading people by lessening of human qualities

Question 14

STUDY FOR COMFORMITY

Answer 14

ASCH 1951

Question 15

Aim of asch

Answer 15

whether people would conform to a majority incorrect answer in an unambiguous task

Question 16

method of asch

Answer 16

groups of 8 judged line lengths and said aloud which comparison line matched it
each group had 1 real participant and the rest confederates
real participant went last
12/18 of tasks confederates gave wrong answer
control group

Question 17

results of asch

Answer 17

control trials wrong answer 0.7%
critical trials wrong answer 37%
conformed at least once 75%

Question 18

conclusion of asch

Answer 18

they conformed due to NSI

Question 19

evaluation of asch

Answer 19

laboratory so good control of variables
lacked ecological validity
ethics as participants were decieved

Question 20

Zimbardo aim

Answer 20

mock prison to see if people would conform to assigned role

Question 21

method of zimbardo

Answer 21

male students recruited as guards or prisoners
guards wore uniforms and prisoners also
initially guards asserted authority/prisoners resisted
prisoners then became more passive and obedient
experiment abandoned early cos of stress

Question 22

conclusion of Zimbardo

Answer 22

guards n prisoners adopted roles quickly

Question 23

evaluation of Zimbardo

Answer 23

control of variables
results can’t be generalised as it was artifical
observer bias as Zimbardo himself ran the prison