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Social Influence Flashcards

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What is social influence

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if your attitudes and behavior are changed by the the influence of another person

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What are norms

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attitudinal/behavioral uniformities that define a group membership and show a clear difference to other groups

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What is Compliance

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that you apparently change your behavior related attitudes only temporary for a request of someone else
or because of group pressure

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What are the characteristics of compliance

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  • that you only change your attitudes publicly/ surface
  • complying only if a request was made
  • going along with others behavior (e.g. group)
  • you are not privately/internally persuaded
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What is the Basis of compliance?

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Power of others

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What means conformity

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that you have enduring, private and long lasting changes in behavior and attitudes

-Reason: group pressure

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Characteristic of conformity

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  • based on accepting and internalizing social norms
  • private acceptance

people think that the given norms are acceptable to use as a guideline

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How can you distinct between groups ?

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  1. Reference groups

2. Membership groups

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Reference groups

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-psychologically important for our attitudes and behaviors
+ behaving in accordance to their norms
- behaving the opposite

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Membership groups

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  • the social group we belong to by some external criterions

+ gives us social validits
- pressure to compliance

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What are the psychological principles of compliance

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  1. Reciprocity
  2. Social validation
  3. Commitment/Consistency
  4. Friendship/Liking
  5. Scarcity
  6. Authority
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Reciprocity

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that if you do someone a favor you would expect that this person would do the same for you = counter performance

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Social validation

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adaptation to social norm

a. Injunctive social norms
b. deskriptive social norms

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injunctive social norms

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cognitive perception which behaviors are approved or disapproved by others

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Descriptive norms

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observe what others do in the same situation

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Commitment/Consistency

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avoiding cognitive dissonance (e.g, food in the door technique)

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Friendship

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makes you more willing to comply to something (e.g. Tupperware party)

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Scarcity

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decreasing availability (e.g. limited edition or only for short time)

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What is the relationship between reference groups and membership groups ?

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that you are more influenced by the reference group than your actual membership group

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What is the dual-process dependency model

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model of social influence
Processes:
1. dependency on others for social approval
2. dependency on others for information about reality

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What does power mean

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capacity of a person to influence others

- resistance of a person being influenced

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What is influence?

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power in action

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Basis/Types of social power

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  1. Reward power
  2. Coercive power
  3. informational power
  4. Expert power
  5. legetimate power
  6. Referent power
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reward power

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ability to give or promise rewards for compliance

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coercive power

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ability to give or threaten punishment when you don’t comply

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Informational power

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targets belief; influencer has more information than oneself

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expert power

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targets belief; influencer has greater expertise

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Legitimate power

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targets belief; influencer is authorized to make decisions

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Referent power

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Identification/ attraction to the source of influence

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Characteristics of power

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  • control of behavior through dominance
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Reasons for compliance

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  • pleasant atmosphere
  • reduce uncertainty
  • group pressure
  • avoide rejection
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Who conforms ?

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  1. individual differences
    - low self- esteem,
    - high anxiety
    - low IQ
  2. Gender difference
  3. Cultural differences
    - higher: collectivists
    - lower: individualist/independent
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What are situational factors influencing conformity

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  1. group size
    - linear effect of group size
  2. group unanimity
  3. normative pressure
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What is normative pressure?

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most effective way to change behavior
- pointing to established norms

-rational process= constructing norm from other peoples behavior –> leads to approval of own behavior

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What are the components of the process of conformity

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  1. Informational influence
  2. Normative Influence
  3. Referent informational influence
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Informational influence

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accepting information of a another source as prove for the reality
- esp. with uncertainty
= need for confidence

  • objective test against reality
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Normative Influence

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conforming to the positive expectations of others
Goal: gaining social approval
- avoiding social disapproval

= we think the group can judge about our behavior with reward and punishment

Effectiveness: under observation of others
Consequence= surface compliance

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Referent Informational influence

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if you feel under pressure to conform to a group norm that in general defines you as a group member

  • conformity because of group membership
    Conformity to a norm not to people
function of other people: source of information about the in-group norm 
---> internalization of the group norm
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Why do people conform ?

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feel sure about that their perceptions/ opinions are correct

  • getting social approval for their behavior
  • develop a social identity as a group member
40
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What is agentic state?

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if people only follow instruction without questioning them

–> transfer of responsibility to the authority

41
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What influences obedience? (Situational factors)

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  1. Immediacy of the victim
  2. immediacy of the authority figure
  3. Group pressure
  4. Degree of social support for obedience or disobedience
  5. Legitimacy of authority figure
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Immediacy of the victim

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how close the victim is to the participant

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Immediacy of the authority figure

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if other obedience people are present (committing themselves to it)

44
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legitimacy of the authority figure

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person looks like an authority (white coat)

—> unquestioned obedience

45
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what is the convergence effect

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development of groups
= using the behavior of others to establish range of possible behavior .

what kind of behavior is allowed and what not

= frame of reference

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