Social Area

Question 1

What is Obedience?

Answer 1

Obedience is compliance with commands given by an authority figure

Question 2

What is Disobedience

Answer 2

The refusal or failure to obey an order from someone in authority

Question 3

What are situational factors?

Answer 3

Influences that do not occur from within the individual but from elsewhere, such as the environment and others around you. 
Examples include:
-Effect of setting
-Effect of consensus
-Effect of an authority figure/uniform
-Effect of culture

Question 4

What are dispositional factors?

Answer 4

Individual characteristics that influence behaviour and actions in a person, such as personality traits, temperament and genetics

Question 5

What is conformity?

Answer 5

The tendency to align your attitudes, beliefs and behaviours with those around you. It can take the form of overt social pressure or subtler unconscious influence

Question 6

What is prejudice?

Answer 6

An unjustified or incorrect attitude towards an individual based solely on the individuals membership of a social group

Question 7

What is peer pressure?

Answer 7

The direct influence on people by peers, or an individual who gets encouraged to follow their peers by changing their attitudes, values or behaviours to conform to those of the influencing group or individual

Question 8

What is social context?

Answer 8

This refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops. It includes the culture that he individual was educated or lived in, and the people and institutions with whine they interact

Question 9

What are the 3 key assumptions in social psychology?

Answer 9

1) Other people and the environment influence our behaviour and thought processes
2) All human behaviour occurs in a social context(even in the a sense of others)
3) Our relationships with others influence our behaviour and thought processes