Ms Dean- conformity Glossary Terms

Question 1

Conformity

Answer 1

Yielding to group pressure

Question 2

Compliance

Answer 2

Publicly but not privately conforming with a group to avoid rejection

Question 3

Identification

Answer 3

Temporarily taking on beliefs and behaviours of a group publicly and privately.

Question 4

Internalisation

Answer 4

Permanently taking on beliefs and behaviours of a group publicly and privately.

Question 5

Informational social influence

Answer 5

When you look to others for guidance to see if you’re right

Question 6

Normative social influence

Answer 6

Conforming to a group to avoid rejection

Question 7

Cognitive dissonance

Answer 7

Two opposing thoughts in your head that creates a unpleasant feeling of anxiety.

Question 8

Confederates

Answer 8

People who act as participants in experiments.

Question 9

Situational variables

Answer 9

Factors in the environment that can unintentionally affect the results of a study.

Question 10

Individual variables

Answer 10

Variable that’s manipulated and controlled by the experiment

Question 11

Social roles

Answer 11

The part individuals play as members of a social group

Question 12

De individualisation

Answer 12

Loss of identity of someone

Question 13

Dehumanisation

Answer 13

To take human qualities off someone

Question 14

Obedience

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To follow someone’s orders who’s in authority

Question 15

Milgram paradigm

Answer 15

The shock experiment

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Agentic state

Answer 16

Doesn’t take on responsibility of their own actions blames it on authority

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Autonomous state

Answer 17

Individuals feel responsible for their own actions.

Question 18

Androcdntrism

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Behaviours, societies or situations that focus, empathise and are controlled by a male perspective

Question 19

Dispositional explanation

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Cause of behaviour to some internal characteristics of a person

Question 20

Authoritarian personality

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A person who holds rigid beliefs, including in absolute obedience, is submissive to authority

Question 21

Resistance to social influence

Answer 21

Resisting to social influence such as conforming

Question 22

Social support

Answer 22

View that the individual has assistance available from others

Question 23

Locus of control

Answer 23

An individual believes they can control everything in their life

Question 24

Reactance

Answer 24

Unpleasant motivational arousal that emerges when people experience a threat to their free behaviours

Question 25

Ironic deviance

Answer 25

Takes place when we believe that the behaviour of the majority is result of unreasonable pressure

Question 26

Status

Answer 26

Relevant rank that an individual holds

Question 27

Morality

Answer 27

Standard of society used to decide what’s right or wrong behaviour