Resistance to Social Influence

Question 1

What is social support?

Answer 1

The presence of allies

Question 2

How does social support help resistance of social influence?

Answer 2

The presence of other rebels helps us to develop our own resistance strategies so long as we see the resistance as legitimate

Question 3

What is locus of control?

Answer 3

Idea put forward by Julian Rotter, it is a persons perception of the personal control they have over their behaviour

Question 4

What does internal locus of control mean?

Answer 4

People believe they have a great deal of control and are more likely to take responsibility for their behaviour

Question 5

What does external locus of control mean?

Answer 5

People believe that events occur due to luck or fate, so they usually blame external factors

Question 6

What did Oliner and Oliner do?

Answer 6

Studied people who had defied orders and rescued Jews from the holocaust

Question 7

What was Oliner and Oliner’s procedure?

Answer 7

Compared 406 people who had protested and rescued Jews from the Nazis and 126 who had not

Question 8

What did Oliner and Oliner find?

Answer 8

The rescuers had higher levels of social responsibility and higher internal locus of control

Question 9

What are 3 evaluation points?

Answer 9

• Self report method: socially desirable, don’t remember
• High qualitative data
• Comparison group: high internal validity