Midterm 2 Chapter 9 Flashcards
What is Homophilly
The tendency for people to associate disproportionately with people who are like them
Is behavior contagious
Yes
Define the social influence
The many ways people affect one another including changes in attitudes, beliefs, feelings and behavior resulting from the comments, actions or even the mayor presence of others
What are the types of social influence
Conformity and compliance
What is conformity
Changing one’s behavior or beliefs in response to the explicit or implicit pressures[Real or imagined] from others
What is obedience
Send an unequal power relationship, submitting to the demands of the person in authority
What is compliance
Responding favorably to an explicit request by another person
Is a tendency to conform good or bad
Psychologists in and I will just have argued that a tendency to conform is generally beneficial. We are often well served by doing what others are doing unless we have a good reason not to
What are the two reasons for mimicry
Ideomotor action and to prepare for interacting with others the interaction will go more smoothly if we establish some rapport
what is ideomotor action
The phenomenon whereby merely thinking about a behavior makes performing it more likely
The tendency to automatically adopt the behavior of members of social categories holds true only for who
Those with a positive attitude towards the group in question– that is those who might be expected to want to interact with members of that group and having interaction go well
Do people like being mimicked
People tend to like those who mimic that more than those who do not even when they are unaware of being mimicked
are there cultural differences in mimicry
When the interview mirrored a Hispanic descent the participant reported less anxiety was rated more highly then when there was no mirroring. For Anglo-American participants no difference whether the interviewer their behavior or not
Are we more or less likely to conform to others views on subjects only happened that ideas about
more likely
What is informational social influence
The influence of other people that results from taking comments or actions as a source of information about what is correct, proper or effective
In the case of clear conflict between a person’s own position in the viewpoint of the group is there more or less conformity
Less– people conform even when they thought the group was out of its collective mind
What is normative social influence
The influence of other people that comes from the desire to avoid disapproval and other social sanctions[ridicule, barbs, ostracism]
The largest number of people who expressed particular opinion, the more likely it has merit is there a limit to this
yes, it levels off at some point
What can we can both informational social influence and normative social influence
Thinks differently from the group collective; they do not have to think the same as you but something different from the group
What does anonymity do
Lemonade number two social influence in therefor conformity
What is internalization
Private acceptance of the propositions, orientation or ideology
What is the important distinction between the impact informational and normative social influence
Information on social influence, by guiding how we come to see the issues or stimuli before us, leads to internalization. We didn’t not just mimic a particular response we actually adopt the group perspective. Normative social influence in contrast often has a greater impact on public compliance then on private acceptance; to avoid disapproval and sometimes do or say one thing but continue to believe another AKA hypocrisy
The disapproval of high status individuals can hurt ____ spend the disapproval of people we care less about
more
Do the opinions of higher status individuals tend to carry more and less weight in the group as a whole
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