social influence Flashcards

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what is conformity

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a change in a person’s behavior or opinions as a result of real of imagined pressure from a group or a person

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social factors that affect conformity

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group size , anonymity , task difficulty

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3
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dispositional factors that affect conformity

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personality , expertise

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4
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what is the ai of asch’s study

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if poeple would conform to a group on aan unambigious task

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what were sasch’s study parcipants

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all male

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what are asch’s particapnts told

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they were taking part in a visual illusion task

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method of asch’s study

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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

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how many critical trails were there on asch’s study

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12 out of 18

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reuslts of asch’s study

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on average 75 percent the particapnats conformed at least one and on average 32 percent of particpants

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conclusion of asch’s study

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poeple would confrm to an umabigious as a sense of group pressure

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11
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what type of study was asch’s study

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a lab study

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12
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how does your personality influence your conformity levels

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if you have a high external locus of control you are more likely goign to be able to confrom

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internal locus of control

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when you eblieve you are in charge of your own fate. and you are more likely to resist to soical pressure

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14
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external locus of control

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outside factors can control your fate

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what is obedience

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your behavior is as result of the person you view as an to an authoritative figure

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what is milgrams agency theory

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suggests all people are likely to be obedient to an autorotative figure

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social factors affecting obedience

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proximity , agency , authoritatiy , culture

18
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results of milgrams theory study

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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

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what is an autonumus state

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we feel in charge of our decisions

20
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what isa agentic

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we allow the autho=itative figure to make the diesicosion

21
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how does culuture affect your obeidence

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we learn throughsocialism to repsect the same kind of pople as our teachers , our peers

22
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evualtion of milgram’s agency theory

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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

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ardono theory

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they wre personlaity differneces between those who were obediemt and those who would resist the obedient

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wuthorataian personality

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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

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what did ardono use to measure the authoritarian personality

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f-scale facism scale

26
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evaluation of ardono

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can’t explain why poeple complained with the holcust

howver they can be authoritarians on the left wing politcs as well

27
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what is bystander behavior

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the actions that people do or don’t take when they witness an emegrnecy situation

28
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social factors of bystander behavior

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presence of others ,cost of helping

29
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dispositional factors of bystander behavior

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silmarity to the victim ,expertise

30
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what is diffusion of responsibility

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if there are lots of people at a situation nor helping it decreases the chance of helping

31
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aim of pillavin study

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to investigate the factors that influence helping behavior on a bystander

32
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what type of study was pillavin

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field study

33
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what is collectove behaviour

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the actiosn that poeple take when they are part of a group

34
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prosicoial behaviour ing groups

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any cosntructive behaviour in crowds

35
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what is antisocial behaviour in a ccrowd

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any disruptive behviour while in a crowd

36
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social factors that influence collective behaviour

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deinvidualtaion , social loafing , culture

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what si deindivualtaion

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when your in a group you loose your identity . you are anyomus in a group and you folow the the groups choices

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what is soical loafing

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you are going to put less efort into a task if you are with a group than dooing the task on your own

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what is a colveist

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they are intressted in the group nneeds and helping them suceed often eastern soiciety

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what is an indualvistualist

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when your only concereed about your own self suceeding

41
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dispostional factors afggecting collective behvaiour

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personality , morality

42
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how does your personality affect you when your in a collect

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your internal locus of control