Conformity And Obidence

Question 1

What are the 3 types of conformity?

Answer 1

Compliance
Identification
Internalisation

Question 2

Who proposed the 3 types of conformity?

Answer 2

Kelman in 1958

Question 3

What is compliance?

Answer 3

A change in our public behaviour resulting from real or imagined group pressure.

Question 4

What is an example of compliance?

Answer 4

You hate smoking but you smoke with freinds as you feel you’d be ridiculed or excluded if you did not.

Question 5

What is identification?

Answer 5

Identification occurs because we wish to be identified with another person that is liked or admired.
They begin to believe in their opinions and values and adopt these to be like them but these opinions and values are not strongly held.

Question 6

What types of conformity do not change privately held beliefs long term?

Answer 6

Compliance

Identification

Question 7

What is an example of identification?

Answer 7

Your freinds are vegetarian so you become one too but when you’re not with them you eat meat and when you leave school you go back to eating meat full time

Question 8

What is internationalisation also known as?

Answer 8

Acceptance

Question 9

What is internationalisation?

Answer 9

When there is a change in behaviour and a private change in opinion.

The individual goes along with group pressure because they believe others to be right and therefore act in accordance with this belief.

Internalisation is a permanent and deeply rooted response to social influence.

Question 10

What is an example of internationalsiation?

Answer 10

Your freind introduces you to the labour party, you have never been into politics but you decide to support them - this then continues throughout life regardless of who you surround yourself with

Question 11

What year was jeaness’s study?

Answer 11

1932

Question 12

What was Jeaness’s study?

Answer 12

Beans in a bottle.

Question 13

What factors affect conformity?

Answer 13

Normative influence
Informational influence 
Individual factors (e.g gender)
Situational factors (e.g. group size)
Cultural factors (e.g. collectivist and individualistic cultures)

Question 14

What factors affect obedience?

Answer 14

Perceived legitimate authority
Socialisation
Authoritarian parenting
Autonomous and agentic levels of behaviour
Situational factors: proximity, location, wearing a uniform

Question 15

What is social psychology?

Answer 15

Social psychology is the study of social behaviour, which occurs when two or more members of the same species interact.
Social psychology is concerned with how people influence with how people influence each other’s behaviour (social influence) as well as how our thoughts influence our social behaviour (social cognition).

Question 16

What is conformity?

Answer 16

Conformity can be defined as social pressure to change our behaviour or beliefs, in order to come into line with others in a group.

Question 17

Where does pressure to conform come to?

Answer 17

Our peers

Question 18

What year was Sherif’s study?

Answer 18

1935

Question 19

Describe sherif (1935)

Answer 19

Sherif (1935) used the auto kinetic effect (an illusion where a point of light appears to move in a dark room).
When alone there was a wide variation in people’s estimates of how far the light had travelled buff I’d the estimates were in a group of three, a group norm emerged.

Question 20

What is social influence?

Answer 20

How the thoughts and behaviour of individual s are influenced by the actual or imagined presence of others.
Conformity and Obedience are just two types of social influence.

Question 21

What were the two explanations proposed for why we conform by Deutsch and Gerard (1955)?

Answer 21

Normative social influence

Informational social influence

Question 22

What is normative social influence?

Answer 22

This is when a person is not in doubt but is influenced by social norms.
This is based on a need to be liked and accepted by others.
NSI was a major factor in Asch’s study.
NSI tends to lead to compliance.

Question 23

What does NSI stands for?

Answer 23

Normative Social Influence

Question 24

What is informational social influence?

Answer 24

This is when uncertainty leads to a person adopting the behaviour of others - we conform because we want to br right.
The sherif and Jenness studies are examples of ISI.
ISI tends to lead to internalisation.

Question 25

What can the factors of conformity be divided into two types?

Answer 25

Situational factors

Individual factors

Question 26

What are some situational factors that impact conformity?

Answer 26

Group size
An ally 
Secrecy of response
Uncertainty of the situation 
Ambiguity of the situation 
level of difficulty of the task
Size of the majority

Question 27

What did Asch (1955) find out about conformity and group size?

Answer 27

Asch (1955) conducted several versions of the line experiment with different numbers of confederates.
They found that up to a point as a groups size increased, so did levels of conformity.
1 confederate - very little conformity
2 - 12% conformity
3 - 30% conformity
Any more made very little difference

Question 28

How does having an Ally impact conformity?

Answer 28

Asch found that having an ally reduced conformity. I.e. when the majority are not unanimous

Question 29

How does secrecy of response impact conformity?

Answer 29

Asch also found reduced conformity when the participant wrote the answer down privately

Question 30

What individual factors impact conformity?

Answer 30

Personality 
Culture
Gender
Level of Education 
Self-esteem

Question 31

What is conformity?

Answer 31

Conformity is when someone changes their behaviour or beliefs in order to fit in with a group, in response to social pressure.

Question 32

What are the three types of conformity?

Answer 32

Compliance
Identification
Internalisation

Question 33

What was the Aim of Mori & Arai’s 2010 study?

Answer 33

This study aimed to replicate Asch’s 1951 study without the use of confederates and have both male and female participants.

Question 34

Who were the participants of Mori

Answer 34

• 104 Japanese Students
• Placed in groups of 4
• Both male & female participants
• More than double Asch’s 50 participants