Social Influence Flashcards

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Informational Social Influence

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Conformity is due to the desire to be right

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Normative Social Influence

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Conformity is due to the desire to be liked

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Compliance

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Individual goes along with the group to gain approval, publicly but not privately

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Identification

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Temporarily accepting and conforming to a group publically and privately

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Internalisation

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Publicly and privately accepting the beliefs of an individual or group

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Cognitive dissonance

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feeling anxiety when holding two contradictory ideas

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Confederate

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Actors who portray themselves as a participant in the study

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Situational Variables

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Features of an environment that affect conformity

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Individual variables

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Personal characteristics that affect conformity

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Social Roles

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the parts individuals play in a social group

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De-individuation

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When a person moves into a group and loses some individual identity

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Dehumanisation

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Degrading people by lessening their human qualities

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Obedience

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Complying with the demands of an authority figure

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Milgram Paradigm

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Experimental procedure for measuring obedience rates

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Agentic State

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When an individual carries out the orders of another individual, acting as their agent and taking little responsibility

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Autonomous State

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Individuals are seen as personally responsible for their actions

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Legitimacy of Authority

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A person who is perceived to be in a position of social control

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Dispositional

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Individuals behaviour as a result cause by internal characteristics

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Authoritarian personality

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Having extreme respect for authority and is obedient to those who have power over them

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Social support

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Assistance and solidarity available from others

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Locus of control

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Extent to which individuals believe they can control events in their lives

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Reactance

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Occurs when a person feels that someone or something is taking away his or her choices

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Ironic deviance

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Takes place when we believe that the behaviour of the majority is the result of unreasonable pressure from authority

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Minority influence

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Where an individual influences the behaviour of a larger group

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Social Change
process of a change in beliefs and attitudes of society
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Asch Procedure
Individual participants were placed in groups from 7-9 and were asked to composer sets of lines There were 18 trails and 12 of these were critical in which the confederates gave an incorrect answer
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Who were the volunteers for Aschs study
123 american male students
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What was Aschs control groups error rate?
0.04%
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On Aschs critical trials, what was the conformity rate?
32%
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How many of Aschs participants conformed at least once
75%
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How many never conformed
25%
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How many conformed on all wrong answers of Aschs study?
5%
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What were Aschs participants three reasons for conformity?
- Distortion of action (to avoid ridicule) - Distortion of perception (people actually believed they were wrong) - Distortion of judgment (people doubted their accuracy)
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Conclusions of Aschs study?
Judgment of individuals is affect by majority even when their evidently wrong
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+ of Asch - Paradigm
became an accepted way of conducting research into conformity
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- of Asch - uneconomical and time consuming
Crutchfield performed similar research but tested all participants all at once
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- of Asch - unrealistic
lacked mundane realism
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- of Asch - unethical
included deceit and harm (psychological stress)
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- of Asch - unconvincing confederates
Conformity rate was actually only 32% which is quite low
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- of Asch - 1956 USA
1956 USA was very anti communist therefore everyone would would most likely conform, if it was tested again results would most likely be significantly different
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Who improved Aschs study and what was their improvement
Mori and Arai - used females - varied culture
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Zimbardo’s Findings
- Both guards and prisoners settled into roles quickly - Five prisoners had to leave the study early due to extreme psychological stress - Was terminated after 6 days due to how consumed the participants became in their roles
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Zimbardos Conclusions
- Illusion merges into reality - cant trust human perception - People are ready to conform if the roles are heavily stereotyped - Situational hypothesis
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Zimbardo - EXTREMELY BAD ETHICS!!!
No protection from harm No right to withdraw Deception Loss of privacy
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+ of Zimbardo - intention improved prisons
hoped to improve however he acknowledged they were worse now than in the 1970s
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- Zimbardo - conflict of interest
He actually took part in his own study
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+ Zimbardo - ethical consent
was accepted by committee and did offer debriefing for several years
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What were the prompts from Milgrams study
- Please continue - The experiment requires you to continue - You have no other choice but to continue
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Findings of Milgram
65% went to 450V | only 12.5% stopped
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Conclusions of Milgram
Ordinary people are likely to still obey even if it goes against moral code or distress
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Adorno - F Scale
people who scored higher of the F Scale tended to have parents in an authoritarian lifestyle (absolute obedience)
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Why do people resist
- Social Support | - Locus of control
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Examples of lack of resistance
- Junior doctor | - Co pilot
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Internal Locus of Control
Make things happen - More independent - Less reliant on others opinions
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External Locus of Control
Things happen to them | - Dependant on others
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Spectors Locus of Control
Measured in regards to normative and informative social influence - Relates to normative as people usually conform when they desire to be liked
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Internals are more persuasive
- Spector
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Internals before better under pressure
Hutchins
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Minority Influence three features to success
Consistent Flexible Commitment
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Consistency study
Blue Slides 8. 2% conform to minority when consistent 1. 25% conform to minority when inconsistent
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Commitment
Xies tipping point only needs 10%
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Factors of Social Change
``` Attention Conflict Consistent Augmentation Snowball Cryptoamnesia ```
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Social change through majority
Social Norms Interventions