Social influence: social support AO3

Question 1

REAL WORLD SUPPORT
What did Albrecht et al do?

Answer 1

8 week programme to help pregnant adolescents resist the pressure to smoke.

Question 2

REAL WORLD SUPPORT
What is the social support in Albrecht et al’s work?

Answer 2

The pregnant adolescents had a mentor/buddy that help adolescents resist social influence

Question 3

REAL WORLD SUPPORT
What are the findings of Albrecht el al in relation to the presence of the buddy?

Answer 3

Those who has a buddy were significantly less likely to smoke in comparison to control group who didn’t have a ‘buddy’

Question 4

REAL WORLD SUPPORT
What is Gammon et al’s work about

Answer 4

Participants in a group were asked to produce evidence to help an oil company run a smear campaign.

Question 5

REAL WORLD SUPPORT
What were the findings of Gammon et al?

Answer 5

• Participants were in a group and could therefore discuss what to do.
• There is a higher level of resistance than Milgram’s study.

Question 6

REAL WORLD SUPPORT
In Gammon et al’s work, how many participants rebelled against their orders?

Answer 6

88%

Question 7

REAL WORLD SUPPORT
What did Holland do?

Answer 7

Repeated Milgram’s baseline experiment and recorded whether the participant has an internal or external locus of control.

Question 8

REAL WORLD SUPPORT
In Holland’s work, what percentage with internal loc did not continue to highest shock level?

Answer 8

37%

Question 9

REAL WORLD SUPPORT
In Holland’s work, what percentage with external loc did not continue to highest shock level?

Answer 9

23%

Question 10

REAL WORLD SUPPORT
Conclusion of Holland’s work

Answer 10

Resistance can be partly down to locus of control

Question 11

CONTRADICTORY RESEARCH
What did Twenge et al do?

Answer 11

They conducted a meta-analysis.
- An analysis data from American locus of control studies over 48 years.

Question 12

CONTRADICTORY RESEARCH
Findings of Twenge et al’s work

Answer 12

There is more resistance to obedience and more people shifted their locus of control to an external.

Question 13

CONTRADICTORY RESEARCH
Conclusion of twenge et al’s work

Answer 13

With the results, more people should have had an internal LOC
- meaning that the role of LOC can be limited when referring to resistance to social influence.

Question 14

CONTRADICTORY RESEARCH
According to Rotter, LOC only affects behaviour in ______?

Answer 14

LOC only affects behaviour in new situations.
SO, Obey in the past -> probably going to obey again in the future