Resistance to Influence (Social Support) Flashcards
Social Support topic
What does Resistance to Social Influence mean?
It refers to people’s ability to withstand social pressure to conform to majority or obey authority
What are the factors influencing the ability to withstand social pressure?
Situational factors
Dispositional factors
What does Social Support mean?
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- The prescence of people who resist pressures to conform can hep other people do the same
- act as models to show others resistance is possible
How can social support help resist conformity?
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- Pressure to conform can be resisted if there are non-conforming people
- enables participant to follow own conscience
- majority is not unanimous
Since you won’t fear being ridiculed by social support, what can you avoid?
Normative Social Influence
How can social support help resist obedience?
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- Pressure to obey can be resisted if there’s disobeying person
- In a Milgram variation rate of obedience dropped when disobedient confederate was present
- The other person’s disobedience acts as a ‘model of dissent’ for participant to copy
What does social support help individuals act according to?
Their conscience
In Milgram’s Study, when there was another erson who was seen to disobey, what did the rate of obedience change to?
65% to 10%
In resisting conformity, what does a non-conforimg confederate acts as to the participant?
a ‘model’ of indepndent behaviour
In resisting obedience, what does a disobeying confederate acts as to the participant?
a ‘model’ of dissent
Research evidence - Albrecht
What is a strength of the social support theory?
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- Research evidence
- Albrecht evaluated a programme to help preganant teenagers to resist peer pressure to smoke
- Social support was provided by a slightly older mentor. They found that people with ‘buddy’ were less likely to smoke than with no ‘buddy’
- Social support can help young people resist social influence in real world
