Resistance to Social Influence

Question 1

Resistance to social influence

Answer 1

Ability of people to withstand social pressure to conform to majority or to obey.

Question 2

Social support: conformity

Answer 2

Can help people resist conformity as the pressure to do so can be reduced if there are other people present who aren’t conforming. Shown in Ash’s study.

Question 3

Social support: obedience

Answer 3

Can help people resist obedience if someone else is also disobeying. Shown in Milgrams as rate of obedience dropped when joined by disobeying confederate

Question 4

Locus of Control

Answer 4

Sense we each have about what directs events in our lives.
Internals: believe they are responsible for what happens to them
Externals: Matter of luck or other outside forces

Question 5

Locus of control: continuum

Answer 5

Isn’t just matter of simply being internal or external- high or low
Those with internal LOC more likely to resist pressures to conform or obey.