social influence Flashcards
what is conformity
a change in a person’s behavior or opinions as a result of real of imagined pressure from a group or a person
social factors that affect conformity
group size , anonymity , task difficulty
dispositional factors that affect conformity
personality , expertise
what is the ai of asch’s study
if poeple would conform to a group on aan unambigious task
what were sasch’s study parcipants
all male
what are asch’s particapnts told
they were taking part in a visual illusion task
method of asch’s study
two white cards were displased one with a standrad line and another with three comparison lines and particpants were asked to match the standrad line to one of the theree comparison line on 18 traials and 12 of them were critical were confederates gave the wrong answers
how many critical trails were there on asch’s study
12 out of 18
reuslts of asch’s study
on average 75 percent the particapnats conformed at least one and on average 32 percent of particpants
conclusion of asch’s study
poeple would confrm to an umabigious as a sense of group pressure
what type of study was asch’s study
a lab study
how does your personality influence your conformity levels
if you have a high external locus of control you are more likely goign to be able to confrom
internal locus of control
when you eblieve you are in charge of your own fate. and you are more likely to resist to soical pressure
external locus of control
outside factors can control your fate
what is obedience
your behavior is as result of the person you view as an to an authoritative figure
what is milgrams agency theory
suggests all people are likely to be obedient to an autorotative figure
social factors affecting obedience
proximity , agency , authoritatiy , culture
results of milgrams theory study
100 percent of prticipants would give a 300 volt electric shock to what they thought was a praticpant in the next room all of the orders of a sicientist acting as an authrative figure
what is an autonumus state
we feel in charge of our decisions
what isa agentic
we allow the autho=itative figure to make the diesicosion
how does culuture affect your obeidence
we learn throughsocialism to repsect the same kind of pople as our teachers , our peers
evualtion of milgram’s agency theory
milgarms own study supports his agency theory as 65 percent of poeple obeyed an authorative figure to give the particpant a legal shock
can be used to ecplain situation like eikhman the nzi amn
maybe dispositional factors could explain how everyone was not all obedient
ardono theory
they wre personlaity differneces between those who were obediemt and those who would resist the obedient
wuthorataian personality
someone who is excessively obedient has a similar condition to someone with a mental health disorder.
starts at a child and it is the trauma from a strict upbringing so the restement they had to there parents they are going to displace that on people they view as lower as them
