Social Influence Key Words

Question 1

What is conformity

Answer 1

The change in a persons behaviour due to an imagined pressure/group

Question 2

What are the 3 types of conformity

Answer 2

Compliance,internalisation,identification

Question 3

Whats compliance

Answer 3

Public acceptance
Goes along with a group to not be different, only in groups presence.

Question 4

Internalisation

Answer 4

Public and private acceptance
Strongest form of conformity

Question 5

Identification

Answer 5

wanting to fit in/be accepted
fitting in is the main motivation

Question 6

What is agentic shift?

Answer 6

Individual carries out the orders of another person, acting as their agent with little personal responsibility

Question 7

Automonous state?

Answer 7

A person who has extreme respect for authority and is obedient to those who have power over them

Question 8

Agentic state?

Answer 8

Where we feel we are the agent of someone else acting on their behalf.

Question 9

What is

Question 10

h

Question 11

Locus of control?

Answer 11

the sense we each have about what directs events in our lives.

Question 12

External?

Answer 12

Beleiving what happens is a matter of luck or outside forces.

Question 13

What

Question 14

Unamity

Answer 14

Complete agreement from a group of people about an issue or question.

Question 15

Situational variables?

Answer 15

Features of an environment that affect the degree to which individuals yield to group pressures