Resistance to social influence Flashcards

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1
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What is resistance to social influence?

A

When an individual resists social pressure to obey or conform

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What is locus of control?

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How responsible an individual feels for their actions

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What is an internal locus of control?

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Belief that behaviour caused is by personal decisions/in control of behaviour

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What is an external locus of control?

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Belief that behaviour is the result of external factors (luck)

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Which type of LOC is more likely to resist social influence?

A

Internal LOC

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Which type of LOC is less likely to resist social influence?

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External LOC

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What are the 2 AO3 points of LOC?

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1) Contradictory research
2) Research support

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What has been found about the LOC of young people?

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It is becoming more external

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Who conducted a meta-analysis on LOC studies?

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Twenge et al

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What did Twenge et al find?

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That young Americans have increasingly believed that their fate was determined by luck and powerful others rather than their own actions

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What has happened to the LOC scores of students from 1960-2002?

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They’ve become more external

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What did Twenge et al find regarding obedience?

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There has been an increase in resistance to obedience since 1960

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Who repeated Milgram’s study to look at LOC?

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Holland

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In Holland’s study, what percentage of those with an internal LOC didn’t continue to 450v?

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37%

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In Holland’s study, what percentage of those with an external LOC didn’t continue to 450v?

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24%

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16
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What do Holland’s findings increase?

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The reliability of the LOC explanation of resistance to social influence

17
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What is social support?

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When a peer provides support by resisting social influence

18
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Why does social support increase resistance to social influence?

A

Seeing others disobey/resist social influence gives the observer confidence to do so

19
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What are the 2 types of social support?

A

Disobedient role model or dissenting peer (ally)

20
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What did Asch find when he gave his participants a confederate ally?

A

Conformity dropped from 33% to 5.5%

21
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What are the 2 AO3 points of social support?

A

1) Research support
2) RWA

22
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Who provides research support for social support?

A

Albrecht

23
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What did Albrecht evaluate?

A

A programme aimed at helping pregnant teenagers resist smoking

24
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In Albrecht’s study, how were the teenagers given social support?

A

They were assigned a mentor

25
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How long was Albrecht’s programme?

A

8 weeks

26
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What did Albrecht find?

A

That participants with a mentor were more likely to resist social influence compared to the control group

27
Q

What event provides real world support for social support?

A

The Rosenstrasse protest

28
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When was the Rosenstrasse protest?

A

1943

29
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Who were the protesters in the Rosenstrasse protest?

A

A group of German women

30
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What was being protested for in the Rosenstrasse protest?

A

For the Gestapo to release 2000 Jewish men

31
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What did the Gestapo threaten to do to the women protesting in the Rosenstrasse protest?

A

Open fire on them

32
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What was the end result of the Rosenstrasse protest?

A

The Jewish men were set free

33
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What real-life event does Milgram’s findings have applications to?

A

Rosenstrasse protest