Social Influence Flashcards
chapter 7
Agentic state
- from Milgram named state of mind in which a person acts in submissive obedience as an agent obedient to the one giving the commands.
Autokinesis
- an optical illusion that makes an impression of a light point moving in a dark space.
How can the social influence research is biased by the Conformity bias?
- the conformity bias states, that behavioural psychologists only look @ social influence as a one way pattern in which the minority/ individual always confirms with the majority.
How does the conversion effect contradict the conformity bias?
- it describes the phenomena of a minority suddenly shifting the internal state and attitude of a majority.
What two ways of dependence do we experience towards our social enviroment according to the dual dependency model?
- the dependence of the approval of others
- the dependence of getting information about the reality ,of others
What the heck is a frame of reference?
- a set of attitudes and positions , which occurs in a particular situation from people being in a particular position.
What is it called if we accept what others tell us as being the reality / truth?
- informational influence
What name did Mr. Kelly give the term of “belonging” to a group due to the way you look.
- membership group
Which phenomena is described by the minority influence ?
- many minorities or single powerful ones shift the attitude of a majority.
Normative influence
- the influence of wanting to please the norms to gain social approval and avoid social disapproval
How would I define norms?
- a collection of attitudes that is confirmed by a vide range of the population and the government and considered being part of the culture.
- define group identities and differentiate between groups.
What is Mr. Kelly’s term for a group that is psychologically significant to our behaviour ?
- reference group
- > the group we refer to when justifying our behaviour.
Why do we need a word as long as referent informational influence to say :?
- the pressure of having to agree with the norms within a group that make me part of the group.
Social impact ?
- the impact others have on our behaviour and attitude often due to group size and being either temporal or physically involved .
Social influence
- attitude and behaviour are influenced by the real or imagined presence of people.
