Social Influence Definitions Flashcards
Autonomous state
Where individuals are seen as personally responsible for their actions
Cognitive dissonance
Unpleasant feeling of anxiety created when simultaneously holding two contradictory ideas
Compliance
Superficial type of conformity where people conform publicly by privately disagree
Confederates
Alternative term for stooges or pseudo-participants
Conformity
Changing what we do think or say in response to others
Dehumanisation
Degrading people by lessening their human qualities
Deindividuation
When a person moves into a group and as a result loses some individual identity
Dispositional attribution
Explanation of individual behavior as a result caused by internal characteristics that reside within the individual
Identification
Where people change their beliefs (sometimes temporarily) to fit in with a group
Internalisation
Where people change their beliefs permanently
Ironic deviance
Takes place when we believe that the behaviour of the majority is the result of unreasonable pressure from authority
Locus of control
Extent to which individuals believe they can control events in their lives
Majority influence
Alternative term for conformity
Morality
Decisions and behaviour based upon the perception of proper conduct
Obedience
Complying with the demands of an authority figure
