conformity, compliance, and obedience

Question 1

define conformity

Answer 1

to conform to others

Question 2

what is the most pressurized form of getting someone to do something?

Answer 2

obedience

Question 3

what is the medicore form of getting someone to do something?

Answer 3

compliance

Question 4

social influence

Answer 4

how people’s presence is affecting us.

this is done at unconscious level.

Question 5

why does social influencing occur?

Answer 5

• this facilitates social interactions –> people are more likely to mimic when they want to belong.
• related to mood –> mood contagion - the speaker’s mood was contagious for the participant.

Question 6

when all members of a group give an incorrect response to an easy questions, most people most of the time conform with that response.

Answer 6

no, only usually true for difficult questions.

Question 7

conformity

Answer 7

to change our perceptions, opinions, or behavior in way that are consistent with group norms. sometimes we do this without even second thoughts and it is done unconsciously.

Question 8

serif’s autokinetic effect

Answer 8

was to test conformity.
this was an ambiguous test where a light was moved around creating an optical illusion and the distance wa asked. most of the time people conform to the answers of the confederate. there answers started to converge later on with the confederate. each group had formed a norm on ho wfar the dot was moving. 90% of the people conform.
because of the ambiguity people turned to each other for answer.

Question 9

Ash’s line judgement

Answer 9

line comparison by one subject while in a group of confederates.
easier and clear cut task that he thought people do not need to conform to.
the order of the seating was controlled for.
participants went along 37 %of the time even when they clearly knew they were incorrect.
participants found themselves in an akward position and hence conformed.

Question 10

information inlfuence and normative influence

Answer 10

informational: people conform because they believe that the other person is correct, believe that they know something that you do not know. during ambiguous or difficult task.
this leads to private conformity –> person privatly accepts the position taken by others.
serif’s auto kinetic effect.
normative influence: people conform because they fear the negative social consequence. this is during clear cut situation.
public confomity –> superficial chnage in overt behaviour.
ash’s line judgement

Question 11

people also conform on task when they had to percieve things.

Answer 11

when they went along with answers of confederate, there was hightened response to areas that are associated with spatial awarness meaning they started to question there answer.

Question 12

does confomrity go up on difficult task?

Answer 12

yes, on difficult task we use other people as a soruce of information and on easy task we do not conform.

Question 13

as the numebr of people in a group increase, so do their impact on an indivudal

Answer 13

false, only true to a certain point. when there is about 3 to 4 people around us conformity rate will increase, after that it will drop.

Question 14

factors that majority group nfluence on conformity:

Answer 14

group size: conformity increases with group size but only till 3 to 4 ppl.
awarness of norms: conform only when we know about and focus on social norms
having an ally in dissent will decrease conformity.
sex differnces: if not familiar with topics on other gender then conformity increases.

Question 15

law of diminishing effect

Answer 15

stop having impact as you add more poeple. this was seen in asch’s expriemnt.

Question 16

pluralistic ignorance

Answer 16

majority of group members privately reject a norm but go along with it because they incorrectly assume that most others accept it as well.

Question 17

how does minority grouo get others to conform

Answer 17

• through the power of there style

Question 18

moscovici

Answer 18

nonconformist derive power from the style of their behavior. this is the consistent dissent approach. in order to get authority, they need to be aggressive but still need to be adaptive and flexible.

Question 19

hollander

Answer 19

miniorities influence by first accumulating idosyncrasy credits –> first conform and then dissent.

Question 20

compliance

Answer 20

change in behavior as the result of direct request. it is a part of a subtle manipulation.

Question 21

norm of reciprcoity

Answer 21

if someone helped us, we are also likely to help them. this is persuasiveness and powerful, we feel obligated to repay the same size of gift. however, this is short lived.

Question 22

in the door technique

Answer 22

person begins by asking something small hence making them feel good about themselves (self-perception theory) and then asking for something bigger. small to big

Question 23

low balling

Answer 23

asking to make a commitment and the revealing the hidden cost. effective when done in public and by the same person. small to big

Question 24

Door in the face.

Answer 24

asking for something bigger that will get rejected and then asking for something small.
perceptual contrast –> the second request is reasonable comapre to the first one.
recipriocal concession –> we feel pressured to change our desicion because they did to. big to small

Question 25

that is not all technique

Answer 25

person begins with a somewhat inflated request, then immediately decrease the apparent size of the request by offering a discount or bonus. big to small.

Question 26

obedience

Answer 26

behaviour change produced by commands of authority
this is because as kids we are basicually taught to never question authority. greatly infulenced by symbols of authority.

Question 27

Stanley milligram’s video

what were the three things that were used in this study

Answer 27

people went past 135v shock to give to people. this was affected because there was physical presence and apparent legitimacy of the authority figure.
the victim proximity was not seen and they were seperated from the participant.
the experimental procedure: were made believe that they will not be responsible for the participants welfare and hence gradual escalation was used.