explanations of resistance to social influence

Question 1

who came up with Locus of control?

Answer 1

Rotter

Question 2

what are the two types of locus of control?

Answer 2

-internal
-external

Question 3

what does locus of control mean?

Answer 3

the extent to which someone has control over the events in their life.

Question 4

what does it mean if someone had high internal locus of control?

Answer 4

they believe that what happens in their life is largely down to their own behaviours and that they are in control

Question 5

what does it mean is someone has high external locus of control?

Answer 5

this is when the person believes that the events in their life are due to external factors and out of their control. people with high external locus of control believe in things such as faith and destinies

Question 6

who conducted a meta-analysis to support the locus of control?

Answer 6

Atgis 1998

Question 7

what did Atgis find?

Answer 7

they found that people with higher external locus of control were more likely to conform and easily persuaded.

Question 8

who also supported Atgis with research?

Answer 8

Holland 1967 repeated milgrams baseline study and found that 37% of people with internal locus of control didnt obey to 450w and 23% of people with external locus of control didnt obey.

Question 9

what is social support?

Answer 9

this is when pp are able to resist conformity because someone in the group had the same view and them

Question 10

what study shows social support?

Answer 10

aschs study

Question 11

evaluate social support as a explanation.

Answer 11

+ Gamson found that 29 out of 33 groups of pp did not conform when asked to help a oil company because they had social support.
+ Mullen found that pp were more likely to break the law of jay walking when a disobedience model demonstrated it
+ practical applications
-asch found that for social support to work it needs to be given early on