Conformity And Obedience Flashcards
___ - Adjust their attitudes and behaviors to be consistent with others (can be toward any group someone interacts with, being accepted by a social group can satisfy one’s need to belong)
Conform
___ ___- Standards of behavior that groups share (provides guidelines for how one is supposed to behave in certain situations
Social norms
____ social norms - Spoken and written down norms
Explicit social norms
___ social norms - Implied social norma
Implicit social norms
____ ____ was a famous psychologist interested in the ideas of conformity and obedience (performed an experiment which he showed a group 3 lines of varying length)
Solomon Asch
___ ___ studied obedience (conducted an experiment between teachers and learners. Learners were shocked by teachers when told to continue by an authority figure. Learners were actors)
Stanley Milgram
____ - The conformity to figures of authority (usually learned)
Obedience