Social Influence

Question 1

Agentic State

Answer 1

Individual carries out the orders of another person, acting as their agent with little personal responsibility

Question 2

Authoritarian Personality

Answer 2

A person who has extreme respect for authority and is obedient to those who have power over them

Question 3

Autonomous state

Answer 3

Where individuals are seen as personally responsible for their actions

Question 4

Cognitive dissonance

Answer 4

Unpleasant feeling of anxiety created when simultaneously holding two contradictory ideas

Question 5

Compliance

Answer 5

Superficial toe of conformity where people conform publicly but privately disagree

Question 6

Confederates

Answer 6

Pseudo-participants/fake participant

Question 7

Conformity

Answer 7

Changing what we do think or say in response to others

Question 8

Dehumanisation

Answer 8

Degrading people by lessening their human qualities

Question 9

Deindividuation

Answer 9

When a person moves into a group and as a result loses some individual identity

Question 10

Dispositional attribution

Answer 10

Explanation of individual behaviour as a result caused by internal characteristics that reside within the individual