social influence

Question 1

conformity

Answer 1

a change in a persons behaviour or opinion as a result of real or imagined pressure from a person or group of people

Question 2

normative social influence

Answer 2

conforming because don’t want to stand out or be mocked. seeking social approval

Question 3

informational social influence

Answer 3

conforming because of the thought others are correct tends to be permenant

Question 4

aschs line experiment - method

Answer 4

• 50 male american students
• groups of 6-8 sat in a room with only 1 true naive participant
• naive participant sat towards the end of the group
• each confederate gave the wrong answer every time

Question 5

aschs line experiment - how many of the naive participants conformed majority of the time?

Answer 5

37%

Question 6

aschs line experiment - what percentage of naive subjects conformed at least once?

Answer 6

75%

Question 7

what was asch assessing

Answer 7

to what extent a person would conform to the opinion of others even when the answer is certain ie. unambiguous

Question 8

variables affecting aschs line expriment - group size

Answer 8

asch varied the number of confederates in each group between 1-15. he found that relationship between group size and level of conformity was curvilinear. if there was two confederates conformity to the wrong answer was 13.6% when there was three conformity rose to 31.8%