Conformity

Question 1

Reward Power

Answer 1

Something that makes us feel good causing us to confrom

Question 2

Coercive Power

Answer 2

If we don’t conform something bad will happen to us

Question 3

Legitimate Power

Answer 3

Someone has the actual power to make us conform

Question 4

Expert Power

Answer 4

We believe someone else has more knowledge than you, so you do what they say

Question 5

Information Power

Answer 5

When you need information so you do what people want you to do in order to get information

Question 6

Referent Power

Answer 6

When you admire someone so you do what they say

Question 7

Normative Influence

Answer 7

Changing your response because of pressure from others in non-ambiguous situations

Question 8

Name and describe the two types of normative influence

Answer 8

Compliance: Doing something only as long as the pressure is there i.e. getting robbed

Identification: Doing something until you don’t identify with the group i.e. joining new friend group

Question 9

Informational Influence

Answer 9

Gathering information from the situation in an ambiguous situation in order for you to be correct

Question 10

Internalization

Answer 10

Not knowing what to do so copy other people because you assume they know what to do

Question 11

Muzafer Seriff Experiment

Answer 11

Small light in a dark room that appears to move. Individual would come to a conclusion on how far it moves each time and then the individual was put in a room with other people and did the same thing. They would all eventually come to the same conclusion even though there is no correct answer and each person sees it differently.

Question 12

Solomon Asch Experiment

Answer 12

The experiment where they every person gives their answer as to what line is the longest and every confederate gives the wrong answer to see if the individual will conform.

Question 13

Lone Dissenters

Answer 13

Someone who goes against the normative conclusion. If one person goes against everyone else it makes it easier for other people to disagree as well

Question 14

Milgram’s Experiment

Answer 14

Had participant shock a confederate with increased intensity all the way up to dangerous levels. Tested to see if they would continue all to follow experimenter’s orders all the way through

Question 15

What were the results of Milgram’s Experiment

Answer 15

65% of the participants obeyed the experimenter, following all the way through to 400 volts

Question 16

What was the point of no return for Milgram’s experiment

Answer 16

If the participant kept going after 150 volts and the pleas that the confederate was making, then there was an 80% chance they’d follow all the way through

Question 17

Why did people obey Milgram’s experiment

Answer 17

People were placed in a very strong situation, in which how they should behave was strongly implied and also “enforced” by an authoritative figure.

Also there is a belief that people found it harder because of the increase in small increments called “slippery slope theory”

Question 18

What is considered a weak situation

Answer 18

A situation where you are uncertain what you are supposed to do. Your behaviour and preferences have a lot more influence in these situations.

i.e. a yellow light

Question 19

What does the proximity to the victim tell us about the experiment

Answer 19

The closer the victim is to the participant, the more likely the participant is to resist. Also, what the victim says has no impact whatsoever on the participant’s likelihood of obeying

Question 20

What does the proximity to the victim tell us about the experiment

Answer 20

The further the experimenter was to the participant the less likely they were to obey, demonstrating that the experimenter loses social power the further away he is

Question 21

Describe the dissenting peers version of Milgram’s Experiment

Answer 21

The experiment has 3 teachers. The two teachers who are confederates eventually back out so it is just the participant continuing. The participant almost always stops

Question 22

Why does the participant usually stop in the dissenting peers experiment

Answer 22

The situation of the experiment changes due to normative and informational influences. The peers set a norm to not hurt people and you are given information that its okay to quit. Also the experimenter loses social power due to the coercive power of the confederates.

Question 23

What happened in the Abdicating Responsibility Milgram experiment

Answer 23

The participant was tasked to tell another person to shock the victim. The experimenter was still present and told the participant to continue telling the confederate to shock the victim. 92.5% of the participants obeyed

Question 24

Why did the participants obey during the Abdicating Responsibility Milgram experiment

Answer 24

The participant continued because of pluralistic ignorance and diffusion of responsibility. The participant didn’t feel wholly responsible for the actions and they believed that if the teacher kept going then it must be okay.

The power of the experimenter is also enhanced because you are not directly performing the action

Question 25

What was the legitimacy of Milgram’s experiment

Answer 25

People were found to obey just as much at Yale as they were at a strip mall, so the experiment is quite legit

Question 26

Did Milgram’s experiment show that people are innately aggressive

Answer 26

No. When people were given the choice to use whatever voltage level they wanted, they almost never chose more than 75 volts