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Social Influence Flashcards

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What is compliance

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confirming publicly but continuing to disagree in private

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How did group size affect Asch’s research ?

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Adding more than 3 confederates made little difference

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how did unanimity affect asch’s research ?

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confirming reduced by a quarter to when the majority were unanimous

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What are the 2 explanation of conformity

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Normative Social Influence and
Informational social influence

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what is conformity?

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tendency to change what we do, think or say in response to real or imagined pressure from others

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what is identification

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type of conformity where we act the same as a group, temporarily
e.g police officers upholding laws they disagree with

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what are the 3 types of conformity

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compliance
identification
internalisation

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What is informational social influence

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when you want to be right, follow the better information as a cognitive process

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what is internalisation?

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deep type of conformity where you genuinely accept information

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what were the variables tested by Asch?

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group size
unanimity
task difficulty

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how did task difficulty affect Asch’s research?

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conformity increased with the task difficulty

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what is normative social influence?

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confirming to be liked and to fit in, an emotional process

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what are the situational explanations of obedience?

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agentic state and
legitimacy of authority

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what is agentic state

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a mental state where we feel no personal responsibility for our behaviour as we believe we are acting for an authority figure

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what is legitimacy of authority

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when we are more likely to obey people who we perceive to have authority over us

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Explanations for resistance to social influence

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social support and locus of control

17
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how can social support help resist social influence in conformity

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seeing others not conforming can reduce pressure to conform

18
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how can social support help resist social influence in obedience

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pressure to obey can be reduced if another is seen disobeying

19
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what is locus of control and how can it help resist social influence

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it is the extent to which people believe they have control over their own lives

high internal LOC are more likely to resist pressures

20
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what is internal locus of control

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when someone believes they are responsible for what happens to them

21
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what is external locus of control

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when someone believes things happen without their control

22
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what is the disposition all explanation of obedience

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the authoritarian personality
formed in childhood due to harsh parenting, where someone is especially susceptible to obeying people in authority and dismissive of inferiors

23
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what is minority influence

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where one person or a small group of people influence beliefs/behaviours of other people

24
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what are 3 variables that increase the rate of minority influence

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Consistency
commitment
flexibility

25
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what is social change

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when whole societies adopt new attitudes, beliefs and ways of doing things

26
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how does social change occur in conformity

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encouraged by drawing attention to what the majority are actually doing

27
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how does social change occur in obedience

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through process of gradual commitment

28
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what are the steps of social change

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  1. Draw attention through social proof
  2. Consistency
  3. Deeper processing
  4. Augmentation principle
  5. Snowball effect
  6. Social cryptomnesia
29
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what is the augmentation priniciple in social change

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taking risks to further the cause

30
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what is social cryptomnesia

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the memory of change occurring but not the process that led up to it

31
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what is the snowball effect in social change

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switching from majority to minority position

32
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what were the 3 situational variable of obedience in Milgram’s research?

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Proximity
Location
Uniform

33
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How did proximity affect Milgram’s research?

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when the learner and teacher were in the same room, the rate of obedience dropped from 65% to 40%

34
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How did location affect Milgram’s research?

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in the run-down location, instead of the prestigious university, obedience fell to 47.5%

35
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how did uniform affect Milgram’s research?

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when ‘ordinary clothes’ were worn by experimenter, obedience rate dropped to 20%

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