resistance to social influence

Question 1

who came up with locus of control and when?

Answer 1

Rotter (1966)

Question 2

what is locus of control ?

Answer 2

the extent of which people believe they have control over their own lives

Question 3

what will people who have a internal locus of control believe ?

Answer 3

what happens in their life is a result of their own behaviour and they have control over their lives

Question 4

what will people who have an external locus of control beleive ?

Answer 4

what happens to them is controlled by external factors and they do not have complete control over their life

Question 5

is someone with and internal locus of control or external LOC more likely to resist pressures to conform or oeby ?

Answer 5

internal

Question 6

what did oliner and oliner do and when ?

Answer 6

1998 .They interviewed non Jewish survivors of WWII and compared those who had resisted orders and protected Jewish people with those who had not.

Question 7

what were oliner and oliner findings ?

Answer 7

406 rescuers who has resisted resisted orders were more likely to have a high internal locus of control ,in comparison to the 126 people who has simply followed orders /
.But it is difficult to conclude that that was the only factor encouraging them to obey and comply

Question 8

explain Spector .

Answer 8

1983 - used Rotters locus of control scale to determine if locus of control is associated with conformity .

Question 9

explain Spectors findings ?

Answer 9

from 157 students ,those with a high internal locus of control were less likely to conform then those with a high external locus of control but only in normative social influence .There was no difference in informational social influence

Question 10

explain social support

Answer 10

having an ally = no longer fear being ridiculed for point of view =avoid normative social influence

Question 11

Explain Asch and Social support ?

Answer 11

in a variation , one of the confederates were instructed to give the correct answer throughout,rate of conformity dropped to 5.5%

Question 12

explain Milgram and social support ?

Answer 12

variation -real participant placed with 2 additional confederates ,who also played the role of teachers .The 2 additional confederates refused to go on and withdrew from the experiment early .% of real participants who went to full 450 V dropped from 65% to 10%