Social Influence- Explanations Of Resistance To Social Influence

Question 1

Define social support

Answer 1

Seeing other individuals who resist orders and the pressure to conform.

Question 2

What can social support help?

Answer 2

increase an indiviudals confidence in resisiting soical influence, both via pressures to conform andf orders from authroity figures

Question 3

How can the unanimity of the group be broken whilst challenging the legitimacy of the authority figure?

Answer 3

By having others who are defiant around us which give us disobediant role models, creating a small alternative group to belong to and ally.

Question 4

having others who are defiant around us which give us disobediant role models, creating a small alaternative group to belong to and ally leads to what?

Answer 4

the unanimity of the group be broken and challenges the legitimate authority of the authority figure

Question 5

Locus of control?

Answer 5

Rotter: an individual has a sense of personal control over their lives

Question 6

How can locus of control be measured and what does it

Answer 6

On a scale
-personality scale ranges from a high internal to high external locus of control

Question 7

How do people w/ a high internal LOC feel?

Answer 7

-feel that their actions control their lives, have responsibility for their actions, and these dictate the events in their lives, and less concerned w/ social control

Question 8

How do people w/ a high external LOC feel?

Answer 8

feel their lives are controlled by external forces, such as fate or the government

Question 9

Where do majority of people score on the personality scale?

Answer 9

majority of people will have scores somewhere near the middle of the extremes, w/ only a few scoring in extreme ends

Question 10

It is thought that someone w/ a high internal LOC is more able

Answer 10

to resist pressures to conform or obey

Question 11

Evaluative studies

Answer 11

Howard
Asch (+ Allen & Levine)

Question 12

Does Howard’s study support or criticise ?

Answer 12

Support

Question 13

Does Asch’s study support or criticise ?

Answer 13

Support

Question 14

Howard

Answer 14

-in a replication study of Milgram’;s syidy, Ps were asses for Internal or External LOC.
-37% of those w/ an INTERNAL LOC refused to continue to the highest shock level, compared to 23% of those w/ an EXTERNAL LOC

Question 15

What does Howrad;s replication study suggest ?

Answer 15

Those w/ a HIGH INTERNAL LOC are more able to resist orders

Question 16

OPPOSING STATEMNT FOR HOWARDS STUDY

Answer 16

However,

-63% (majority) of those w. an internal LOC, still obeyed and as 23% w/ an external LOC refused,

-LOC cannot fully explain why some people obey

Question 17

Asch

Answer 17

-In one of variations, one of confederates disagreed w/ group
-gave a diff response to the line length problem and provided social support to Ps

-conformity dropped significantly from 32% of critical trials to just 5.5%, demonstrating power of social support

Question 18

Asch’s study , supportive statemnt

Answer 18

Allen &. Levine
Showed a same effect in a similar study, even if the non-conforming confederate had thick glasses and stated clearly he had difficulty seeing.

Question 19

Further evaluation:
Evidence showing that a significant number of people are able to resist social pressure

Answer 19

-In classic studies by:
Asch
Milgram
Zimbardo
individuals resisted pressure to obey or conform

Question 20

SATISTICAL
Further evaluation:
Evidence showing that a significant number of people are able to resist social pressure

Answer 20

Asch Line Length study:
24% did not conform in a single critical trial

Milgram’s Study:
35% reduced to obey the experimenter and shocked up to 450 v

Zimbardo Stanford Study:
-most of guards refused to conform to the social role of aggressive guards in Zimbardo’s study