SOCIAL INFLUENCE: Types of Conformity

Question 1

Conformity

Answer 1

Yielding to group pressure. It is also known as ‘majority influence’. It is the result of an indirect order

Question 2

Compliance

Answer 2

Publicly, but NOT privately going along with majority influence to gain approval & avoid ridicule
This is temporary and only shown in presence of the group

Question 3

Internalisation

Answer 3

aka true conformity - public & private acceptance of majority influence, through adoption of the majority group’s belief system

Stronger, permanent form of conformity, as it is maintained outside of the groups’s presence

Question 4

Identification

Answer 4

Public & private acceptance of majority influence in order to gain group acceptance.

Stronger form of conformity, but still temporary - ppl conform to the opinion of the group without necessarily agreeing to them

Question 5

Types of conformity meaning

Answer 5

a way in which people conform