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Social Influence : Resistance To Social Influence Flashcards

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Is locus of control dispositional or situational ?

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Dispositional

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Is social support dispositional or situational ?

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Situational

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Locus of control

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Degree of control which an individual feels the have

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What do internals believe ?

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Things happen to them under their control

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What do externals believe ?

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Things happen outside their control

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Who’s more likely to resist social pressure

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Internals because they base decisions on their own lives and they’re more confident

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LoC evaluation : Holland +

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  • repeated milgrams study and 37% internals didn’t go to 450v
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LoC evaluation: -

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  • loc in resisting social pressure has been exaggerated so limited role
  • rotter LoC only comes to play in novel situations so its only in a few situations
  • on familiar situations, previous experienced will always be more important
  • contradictory research
  • twinge found people became more resistant to obedience but also more external but if resistance linked to LOC , should be internal
  • challenges link
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What is minority influence ?

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One person or a small group influence beliefs

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Which type of conformity does minority influence lead to ?

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Internalisation

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How did Moscovici study minority influence ?

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  • blue slide , green slide study

- 6 people asked to judge colour of slide

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Moscovici : how many confederates ?

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2 confederates who said slide is green on every 2/3 of trials

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Moscovici : how did participants react to confederates

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  • they answered the same wrong answer on 8.42%
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Moscovici : what happened when a second group was introduced ?

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The second group was exposed to an inconsistent minority and agreement fell to 1.25%

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Moscovici : what happened with a third control group ?

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No confederates and participants only got it wrong on 0.25%

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Consistency

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  • consistency increases interest from others
  • can be over time
  • people rethink own view
  • draws attention to minority view
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Commitment

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  • extreme activity to draw attention

- sacrifice because they’re at personal risk

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Flexibility

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  • minority need to be prepared to adapt so show balance

- compromise

19
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  • of consistency
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You can be seen as opinionated and unbending

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Process of change

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  • if you hear something new you might take time to thinks bout it deeper
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Snowball effect

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Switch from minority to majority and the rate of conversion becomes faster

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Social support

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Ability to withstand social pressure to conform to the majority

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Why do people resist pressure ?

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  • They have an ally who builds confidence

- breaks the unanimity because individuals have support

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Minority influence evaluation : research support for consistency +

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  • Moscovici showed consistency had a greater effect than inconsistent opinion
  • wood et al also found minorities who were consistent were more influential
  • consistency plays major role in minority influence
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Minority influence evaluation : artificial tasks -

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  • tasks can be artificial
  • for example Moscovicis slide study isn’t realistic
  • far from how minorities would change behaviour in real life
  • lacks external validity
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Minority influence evaluation : research support for internalisation -

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  • in moscovicis study participants they answered right privately so majority were being influenced by minority argument
  • even if people agree they don’t publicly agree as they dint want to be associated with minorities
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Minority influence evaluation : limited real world application -

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  • clear distinction between majority and minimum so the majority have higher power / status
  • in real life situations majorities have more power and its more complaicated
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What is social change ?

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  • society changes its beliefs to create new social norms
  • happens at a gradual pace
  • minority influence is the main driving force
29
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Examples of social change

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  • Homosexuality

- drink driving

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Stages of social change

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  1. Draw attention by focusing majority
  2. Minority show consistency
  3. Deeper processing
  4. Augmentation principle
  5. Snowball effect
    6 critical mass which leads to social cryptomnesia
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What is critical mass

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Pony the minimum becomes majority

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What is social cryptomnesia

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  • people have a memory that social change occurred but they don’t remember what happened
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Conformity creating social change

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  • dissenters encourage others to dissent

- links to NSI

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Obedience creating social change

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  • disobedience can lead to social change
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Conformity maintaining social change

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  • people conform to new norms via compliance

- fit in (NSI)

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Obedience maintaining social change

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  • new social norms can have laws and rules
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Example of obedience maintaining social change

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Homophobia is illegal

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Social influence / change evaluation : resreach support

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  • Nolan hung messages telling residents to reduce energy
  • first group compared to control had a significant difference
  • conformity can lead to social change through nsi
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Social influence / change evaluation : methodological issues -

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  • how social influence leads to social change relies on Moscovici , asch and miligram
  • all lack internal/external because of artificial nature
  • reduces validity of minority influence linked to social change
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Social influence / change evaluation : indirectly effective -

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  • decades for attitudes towards smoking and drink driving to change
  • nemeth that effects of minority are likely to be indirect and delayed therefore social change happened slowly
  • role of minorities influence may be very limited
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How does social support help people ?

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It allows them to act according to their own conscience

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Social support : Aschs study +

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  • A confederate gave the right answer throughout and conformity dropped to 5%
  • when the non-conforming confederate starts conforming the participant sdoes so the effect is not long lasting
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Social support evaluation : miligram +

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2 confederates which refused to shock and obedience dropped to 10%

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