Social 3

Question 1

When do we conform?

Answer 1

Conformity is high when:
- There is a group of 3+ people
- everyone agrees
- feeling incompetent/insecure
- admire group status
- no prior commitment to response
- culture emphasizes social respect

Question 2

What are the 2 main types of social influence?

Answer 2

Approval motive: We want approval from other people

Normative influence: We want to be good group members; what are other people doing and we do it to fit in.
- BEHAVIOUR CHANGES BUT ATTITUDE REMAINS THE SAME

Question 3

Relating to the other 2 main types of social influence, what is informational influence?

Answer 3

When you are not sure what behavior is appropriate, so you look to others and copy their behaviors

Question 4

What is social facilitation and social inhibition?

Answer 4

Social facilitation: what you do well, you will do better around others

Social inhibition: What you do bad will be worse around others

Question 5

What is social loafing?

Answer 5

The phenomenon where people work less in the presence of other people.

Due to:
- accountability (for easy tasks)
- Proportionality (If rewards are spread equally)
- The more group members, the larger the social loafing

Decrease for difficult tasks where efforts are anonymous

Question 6

What is groupthink?

Answer 6

when a group reaches a consensus about a decision to keep HARMONY
- ignore / silence people who disagree
- people feel that they cannot disagree
- leader that is respected
- feels morally superior