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Social Pyschology Flashcards

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What are the three types of conformity

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Compliance, Identification, Internilisation

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What is compliance

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Where someone pretends to believe something publicly, but privately they aren’t it.

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Give an example of compliance to do with Vegitarianism

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At Uni a person may not eat meat with their Vegetarian friends, but at home they eat a lot of meat

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What is Internelisation

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When you want to be part of a group so you pretend to believe, but you end up actually believing it both publicly and privately

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Give an Example of Internelisation to do with Vegitarianism

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Someones flatmates at Uni may be vegitarian, however they convince the person to start eating vegetartion as well

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What is Identification

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When you believe something both publicly and privatley to be part of a group, but when you move / things change these beliefs can too

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Give an example of Identification to do with Vegetarianism

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When at Uni with flatmates who are vegetarian, you may eat vegetarian as well. However after meeting new meat-eating friends, you could go back to eating meat as well.

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Which of the three types of Conformity is permenant?

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Internalisation

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True / False - Do all three types of conformity affect public influence

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True

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Which type of conformity doesn’t change private belief?

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Compliance

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What are the two explanations for Conformity?

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Normative Social Influence
Information Social Influence

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Explain Normative Social Influence (NSI)

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Conforming for emotional reasons - to fit in, fear of rejection, not wanting to be seen as an outcast. It is temporary

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Give an example of NSI

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Laughing at a joke you dont find funny

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Explain Information Social Influence (ISI)

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Conforming for cognitive (contextual) reasons. THis happens when you are unsure of the correct response to a scenario. Believe the group is smarter, so you should go along with them.

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Give an example of ISI

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Don’t say anything even though smoke is entering the room as nobody else is saying anything.

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What was Milgrams Study

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Electric shocks

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Name the three factors which affect obedience

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Proximity, Uniform, Location

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Describe Uniform in reference to Milgrams study

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Variations on millgram’s study took place with the teacher wearing different clothes. When wearing casual clothes rather than a lab coat, the obedience levels dropped from 65% to only 20%

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Describe location in reference to Milgrams study

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A variation on milgram study ocurred where the experiment took place in a run down office block. Obedience levels dropped to 40%. This is beacuse, compared to the prestigous Yale University, there is much less pressure to live up to the name of the place

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Describe proximity in reference to Milgrams study

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Whe the Teacher and Learner where in the same room, obedience dropped to 40%. When the doctor left the room the teacher was in, obedience dropped to 20.5%. When you are not in the presence of the one who is ordering you, it is easier to disobey

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Explain the agentic state

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No longer preform your own concsious actions, all your actions or completely controlled by someone else. Person being ordered believes they will have no responsibility for their actions

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Explain moral strain

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WHen in the agentic state, you may stop obeying someon if what they are telling to you begins to go against what you think is right.

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Explain the autonomous state

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When you are in complete control of your actions ; free will

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What is the agentic shift

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When you shift from the autonomous to agentic state, losing some of your free will

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Explain the three points of legitimacy of authority

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  • When a person recognises their place in social hierachy
  • Legitimiacy is increased by visual signs e.g. uniform
  • Legitimacy of setting or system
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What measures the authoritian personality

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the F-SCALE

27
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Give a brief explanation of the authoritarian personality

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Obeys higher ups
Rude to lower-downs
Very strong stereotypes

28
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Who proposed the three types of conformity

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Kellman

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