Resistance: Social Support and Locus of Control

Question 1

Social Support

Answer 1

Believing peers agree with you (situational)

Question 2

Locus of Control

Answer 2

Personality traits related to confidence (dispositional)

Question 3

Rotter (1966)

Answer 3

• Locus of Control Scale
• Internal LOC - belief in own agency, responisble for own fate
• External LOC - belief in external control, not responsible for own fate

Question 4

Internal LOC: Conformity

Answer 4

• Likely to resist NSI as they don’t believe others’ views matter
• Explains why education inversely correlated with conformity
• Writing secret answers lowered conformity in Asch (1956)

Question 5

Internal LOC: Obedience

Answer 5

• Likely to resist obedience more often so they tend to think for themselves more and look for authority less
• Agentic shift more dificult to achieve
• May explain 35% in Milgram

Question 6

External LOC: Conformity

Answer 6

• Likely to conform more often as they believe external factors are important so they are less likely to trust own convictions
• Authoritarian upbringing is likely to link this to conformity (raised to think parents always right)
• Explains E&M’s findings

Question 7

External LOC: Obedience

Answer 7

• Obey more often since they look for external info about how to act and believe others have control over them
• Agentic shift happens more easily
• May make up a large number of 65% in Milgram

Question 8

Rosenstrasse Protest

Answer 8

• Jews married to ‘Aryan’ Germans protected until 1943
• Govt. ordered couples to divorce in order to legitimise prosecution
• Large protest group formed and Govt. eventually backed down
• Social Support: Religious/traditional Germans who respected marriage joined the protest