Social Influence -> Explanations For Resistance

Question 1

Resistance to Social Influence

Answer 1

• Pressure to conform
• Milgram: 65%
• Asch: 75%
• Some people managed to resist the pressure to conform or obey

Question 2

Social Support Theory

Answer 2

• Situational explanation of resistance to social influence
• Non-Conformity
• Disobedience

Question 3

Strengths of Social Support Theory

Answer 3

• Milgram
• Another confederate who acted as a disobedient role model
  -10% of the participants delivered electric shocks up to 450 volts.
• Aschs
• 5% when one confederate acted as an ally
• Lack of unanimity in the group.

Question 4

Weaknesses of Social Support Theory

Answer 4

• Some participants had no social support.
• Not a complete explanation of resistance to social influence

Question 5

Locus of Control

Answer 5

• Dispositional explanation of resistance to social influence
• Rotter argued that personality determines whether they will obey or resist social influence
• Locus of control
• Internal v. External

Question 6

Strengths of Locus of Control

Answer 6

• Milgrams 35%
• Internal locus of control
• 406 German people who had sheltered Jewish people from the Nazis.
• Internal locus of control

Question 7

Weaknesses of Locus of Control

Answer 7

• Less assertive
• Did not score differently on a test to determine their locus of control