Resistsnace To Social Influence

Question 1

What is resistance to social influence?

Answer 1

How people disobey and refuse to conform

Question 2

What are the two parts to it?

Answer 2

Social support and locus of control

Question 3

What is the social support?

Answer 3

Conformity- reduced by dissenters

Obedience - decreases with disobedient peer as acts as model

Question 4

Evaluation for social support

Answer 4

Research support- conformity decreases even if one person dissents
Research support- obedience drops when disobedient role model present

Question 5

What is the locus of control?

Answer 5

Sense of what directs events in our life (Rotter)

Question 6

Two components with locus of control

Answer 6

Continuum

Resistance to social influence

Question 7

Continuum

Answer 7

High internal at one end, high external at other

Question 8

Resistance to social influence findings

Answer 8

People with high internal LOC more likely to resist pressures to conform

Question 9

Evaluation for locus of control

Answer 9

Research support- internals less likely to obey in Milgram’s study
Contradictory research- people become more external and disobedient