Resistance to Social Influence

Question 1

Externality

Answer 1

Individuals that are more tend to believe that their behaviour and experience is caused by event outside of their control

Question 1

Internality

Answer 1

Individuals who tend to believe they are responsible for their behaviour and experience

Question 2

Locus of control

Answer 2

People differ in their beliefs about whether the outcome of their actions are dependent on what they do or on events outside of their control

Question 3

Social support

Answer 3

The perception that an individual has assistance available from other people, and that they are part of a supportive network

Question 4

Social support - importance of response order

Answer 4

Allen and Levine (1969) found that people are more likely to be influenced by the person answering first in a study where the confederate gives wrong answers in different positions

Question 5

Social support real world example

Answer 5

Rosenstrasse protest in 1943, where a group of german women protested the Nazis who had Jewish people held captive. The gestapo said they would shoot them, but the women stayed together and they won

Question 6

Locus of control research support

Answer 6

Avtgis (1998) meta-analysis on the relationship between locus of control and different types of social influence. Higher locus of control were more easily persuaded and influenced

Question 7

Locus of control - people are more external than they used to be

Answer 7

Twenge et al (2004) found young Americans increasingly believed that their fate was determined more by luck