Social Influence: Types of Conformity Flashcards
What type of conformity is the least permanent and most superficial?
Compliance
What type of conformity is a stronger type of conformity, involving private as well as public change in beliefs and behaviours?
Identification
What type of conformity is the deepest and most permanent change?
Internalisation
Name the variables that affect conformity (3)
Group Size
Unanimity
Task Difficulty
What type of conformity results in a public but not private behaviour change?
Compliance
What type of conformity results in a public but not private behaviour change?
Compliance
What type of conformity is linked to NSI?
Compliance
Compliance is linked to which explanation of conformity?
NSI
What happens to public & private behaviour during compliance?
Public behaviour change but revert back in private
What level of conformity is compliance?
Most superficial & least permanent
What type of conformity is the following:
When Jenny is with her vegetarian friends she agrees that eating meat is harmful to the environment. However, when she goes home she eats meat every night for her tea.
Compliance
What type of conformity is where individuals look to a group for guidance and adjust their behaviour because they want to belong to the group?
Identification
What type of conformity is when we conform due to wanting to become a member of the group?
Identification
What type of conformity is where individuals publicly and privately change their behaviours and belief to go along with a group?
Internalisation
What type of conformity is where an individual accepts the group’s beliefs into their own cognitions?
Internalisation
What type of conformity is linked to ISI?
Internalisation
What type of conformity is the following:
When Jenny goes to University, she decides to become a Vegan because her best friends are vegan. Even when she goes home in the summer holidays, she will only eat Vegan food. However, when Jenny leaves University and becomes a Lawyer her work friends are vegetarian and Jenny changes her beliefs and diet to be accepted by her new work friends.
Identification
What type of conformity is the following:
When Jenny goes to University, she decides to become a Vegan because her best friends are vegan. Even when she goes home in the summer holidays, she will only eat Vegan food. However, when Jenny leaves University and becomes a Lawyer she continues to only eat Vegan food because she believes this is right for the environment.
Internalisation
During identification, when do individuals conform?
When they lack knowledge and look to group for guidance
During identification, why do individuals change their beliefs & behaviours?
As we want to become a member of the group
MCQ1
C
MCQ2
B & D
What type of conformity is this;
Conforming to the behaviour of a role model / adopting a role within the group
Identification
