social influence

Question 1

what is identification?

Answer 1

Looks to the group for guidance.

Question 2

what is compliance?

Answer 2

publically changing a behaviour whilst maintaining a different private view.

Question 3

internalisation?

Answer 3

personal opinions change

Question 4

nsi

Answer 4

desire to be liked and avoid rejection

Question 5

isi

Answer 5

desire to be correct and look to others for answers.

Question 6

locus of control

Answer 6

the factors people believe control their actions.

Question 7

asch’s study:

Answer 7

-Asch (1951) conducted an experiment looking at normative social influence. He wanted to see if people would conform to a group’s wrong answer, even if the answer was unambiguous. The Asch effect is the influence of the group’s majority view on an individual’s.
-8–10 males were asked to participate in the line judgement task.
-1 was a participant and the others were confederates
-publicly identify the matched length to see if they would conform.
results: 75% conformed 1 or more, 5% conformed all 12 times.
Solomon Asch conducted several experiments in the 1950s to determine how people are affected by the thoughts and behaviours of other people.
He identified many variables affecting conformity including group size, unanimity and task difficulty.

Question 8

zimbardo’s study:

Answer 8

-fake prison in the basement of Stanford University, 24 males, random allocation to gaurd and prison.
realistic arrest, uniforms, rules, handcuffs, and batons.
Zimbardo took the role of prison superintendant and lead investigator.
- was cancelled 6 days into it due to the prisoners mental health.

Question 9

evaluation of the Zimbrados study:

Answer 9

+controlled, random allocation
- could have experimental bias
- ethical issues

Question 10

milgrams study of agentic state and agentic shift

Answer 10

agentic state: believe they do not have responsibility over their actions.
agentic shift: go from the autonomous stage to agentic stage.
legitimacy of authority.

Question 11

evaluation of Asch’s study:

Answer 11

+research supports nsi and isi
+lab expirement so high internal validity
+ highly individualistic

-difficult to seperate the influence of nsi and isi
-lacks mundane realism

Question 12

3 factors:

Answer 12

proximity
location
uniform

Question 13

locus of control

Answer 13

the extent to which people believe they have control of their own lives.

Question 14

agentic state

Answer 14

when an individual acts on behalf of another, denying responsibility.

Question 15

legitimacy of authority

Answer 15

people who accept the power and status of legitimate authority figures to give others orders.

Question 16

agentic shift

Answer 16

when an individual shifts from an autonomous state to an agentic state.

Question 17

authoritarian personality

Answer 17

adorno et al. our personalities stem from our childhood experiences and influences. F-scale.

Question 18

3 factors

Answer 18

consistency, commitment, and flexibility.