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what is social influence

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the way in which social factors alter our behaviour

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what is conformity

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yielding to group pressures

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what is internalisation

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a person changing their public behaviour and therefore their private beliefs

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what is compliance

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a person changing their public beliefs but remaining their private beliefs

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what is identification

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a person changes their public and private beliefs only while in the presence of a group

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which type of conformity describes how people conform

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identification, compliance, internalisation

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what is normative conformity

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when a person conforms to be accepted and to feel they belong to a group. they may go along with the group norm but not believe that internally

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what is informational conformity

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when a person yields to group pressures becasue they are unsure of what the answer is themselves. this becomes internalised

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what is deindividuation

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the loss of self awareness in a group

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what is collective behaviour

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the behaviour of two or more individuals who are acting together or collectively

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what is crowd behaviour

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a group of people who have come together for a specific purpose

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what is an ingroup and an outgroup

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  • someone who is part of your group
  • someone who is not part of your group
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give some reasons why people may join in crowd behaviour

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  • the crowd act under a common social identity
    -de-inviduation as people loose themselves in the crowd and therefore feel anonymous
  • assume there will be no punishment for their behaviour
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how can heavy handed police methods lead to violence

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members of the crowd who may have normally protested peacefully feel angry the police are trying to stop them doing something they now see as valid because of conforming to the crowd

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what is pro - social behaviour

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behaviours that benefit society and are seen as positive

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what is anti - social behaviour

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actions that go against society and harms it

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what is an collectivist culture

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a community that prioritises the group instead of an individual

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what is an individualist culture

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a community that prioritises the induvial instead of a group

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define obedience

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following a direct order from an induvial who has a superior authority

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what is a situational factor

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external factors that influence how we behave - obeying or conforming - nurture

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what is a dispositional factor

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how your own personality can affect your behaviour - obeying or conforming - nature

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what is self esteem and how does it link to conformity

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how you perceive yourself - how confident you are in yourself
people with low self esteem are more likely to conform as they don’t believe in themselves

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what is locus of control and how does it link to conformity

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how much control a person feels they have over their own life - in context to internal and external factors

is someone has a high locus of control they are less likely to conform and be influenced by crowd

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what is meant when someone has an internal locus of control

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an individual who believes their own life is determined by their own decisions

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what is meant when someone has an external locus of control

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an individual who believes their life is determined by fate, luck and other external factors

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what are some criticisms of situational factors

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people have free will
inviduation does not always lead to violence
not everyone conforms in the same way
deterministic - assumes that everyone would obey if in correct situation

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what was the aim of Bickman’s study

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investigate the degree of social power that uniform has on other people

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what was the sample of experiment one of Bickmans study

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153 people from NYC

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what was the experimental type, measures and IV and DV of experiment one of Bickman’s study

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feild experiment
independent measures
IV - uniform
DV - if people obeyed

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what was the procedure for the first experiment of Bickman’s study

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three experimenters took turns wearing civilian, milkman and guard uniform. the experimenters then used three scenarios and recorded weather participants obeyed

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what were the finding of Bickman’s first study

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  • people were more likely to obey orders from guard than civilian
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what was the experimental type and sample of Bickman’s second study

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feild experiment
48 pedestrians from NYC

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what was the procedure for Bickman’s second study

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there were two independent variables:
the level of authority and weather they were under surveillance or not

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what were the findings of Bickman’s second study

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surveillance had no effect to weather people obeyed or not
people obeyed guard more

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what was the procedure of experiment three for Bickman

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questionnaire for collage students which investigated 29 scenarios to see if people thought they were legitimate

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what were the findings for Bickman’s experiment three

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of the three original scenarios, the guard was not thought to be more legitimate
- participants didn’t think that uniform made requests more legitimate

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what was the procedure and findings of Bickman’s fourth experiment

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another questionnaire for 189 collage students who were asked to predict what they would do in one of the scenarios from experiment one
- didn’t think that the guard would have more obedience

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what was the overall conclusion for Bickman’s study

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  • uniform doesn’t have an effect on obedience, how people think they will behave isn’t an accurate representation
  • support situational factors for obedience as behaviour was effected by people giving orders (external factors)
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what are the overall criticisms of Bickman’s study

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lack of control over extraneous variables, individual differences, unethical and lacking population validity, not generalisable

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