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Social Influence Flashcards

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1
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In Milgrams original study what was the level of obedience

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68%

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Two general explanations of obedience

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Agentic shift

Legitimacy of authority

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What is a dispositional variable

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How people are disposed, taker personality

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Why do people yield to a minority influence

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Group membership

Consistency

The snowball effect

Having an internal locus of control

Minority is shown to have made sacrifices

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What’s the authoritarian personality

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State of mind or attitude characterised by belief in absolute obedience or submission to ones own authority

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In types of conformity what is compliance

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Occurs when individuals adjust their behaviour and opinions to those of a group to be accepted or avoid their disapproval

Their private behaviour and opinions will remain the same but their public behaviours and opinions will change

Once they have left the group their behaviour and opinions will revert back to normal

Smoking because everyone else does it

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In types of conformity what is identification

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Occurs when individuals adjust their behaviour and opinions to those of a group as they want to be a member

Their behaviour and opinions will change public and privately whisky they desire to be part of that group

Once they have left the group permanently they will adopt new behaviours and opinions

Fashion/ music taste

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In types of conformity what is internalisation

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Occurs when individuals genie,y adjust their views publicly and privately

Normally a permanent change and does not depend on a group membership

A change of religion

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What is informative social influence

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Changing your behaviour and opinions because of a desire to be right

Jenness

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What is normative social influence

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Changing your behaviours and opinions because of a desire to be liked

Asch

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For evaluation what does GRAVES mean

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G: generalisability 
R: reliability 
A: application 
V: validity 
E: ethics 
S: sample
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What does GUT stand for

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G: group size
U: unanimity
T: task difficulty

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In ethical issues what does this acronym stand for

Peter Pan Cried When Charles Dickens Died

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P: psychological harm 
P: physical harm 
C: confidentiality 
W: withdraw 
C: consent 
D: deception 
D: debrief
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What is a locus of control

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How much somebody believes they are in control of events in their own lives

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In Milgrams repeated experiment in Bridgeport what was the percentage for obedience

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47%

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How many people went to 300v in the original Milgram study

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100%

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What does autonomously mean

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In charge of your own actions and behaviour

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What is the Agentic shift

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When people are given orders they are more likely to carry them out if they can shift the blame onto the person who delivered the order

Obedience occurs when you move from working autonomously and shift to working as an agent for someone else

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What is the Agentic state

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You do not see yourself as responsible for your behaviour as the orders have come from somebody else

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What is commitment

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Must show their commitment to the cause by making a sacrifice of time, money or their freedom in order to convince people that their minority view is the right one

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What is flexibility

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If the minority is seen as dogmatic (inflexible) then people will not trust them and will not join them

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What is group membership

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If the message comes from a group you identify with as being a positive then it is more likely to be listened to

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What is the snowball effect

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Once the message has adopted followers through desire to be right, more followers will be picked up as the message becomes popular

More people will join through the desire to be liked

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What is an internal locus of control

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Majority of people tend to want to conform or obey as it makes life easy and helps them avoid conflict

25
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Why do minority’s have to make sacrifices

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If the minority shows they are prepared to give up something to prove that their point is correct

26
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How does social change happen

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Minority

Informational

Snowball effect

Majority

Normative

27
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What is a situational variable

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Changes that can be made to the environment to test their effects on obedience

Proximity
Location
Uniform

28
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What is the legitimacy of authority

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obedience only occurs when the person who is given the order is seen as a legitimate authority

If someone your own age told you to sit down would you

29
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What is proximity

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How close you are to the potential victim of your obedience

Milgram investigated by changing his experiment

Had to physically hold the learners hand on to the second Kolkata

Only 30% went to 450v

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What is location

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Links back to the legitimacy of authority

Originally dome at Yake, but when repeated it was in the office block in Bridgeport

Obedience dropped from 68% to 47%

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What is uniform

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Links back to legitimacy of authority

So,done wearing a uniform seems more legitimate than some,one not on a uniform

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What is social support

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People are less likely to conform or obey when they have someone who supports ten in that refusal to conform or obey

33
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What is a F-scale questionnaire

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30 questions assign different aspects of people’s personality and how authoritarian they are

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What is a internal locus of control

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They believe what happens to them is their fault

They believe they can control stressful situations and succeed in difficult ones

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What is a external locus of control

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Something that happens to them is largely the result of external factors such as luck or fate

They will face stressful situations with a more passive and pessimistic attitude

36
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What are the three factors in regard to minority influence

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Consistency

Commitment

Flexibility

37
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What is consistency

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The desire to be consistent, especially in attitudes amd beliefs

38
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In Bickmans New York study what were the levels of obedience

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14% milkman

19% civilian

38% security guard

39
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In the Hofling nurses study what was the level of obedience

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21/22 nurses

95%

40
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What is the percentage of obedience in the Milgram research on the phone

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20%

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