Types And Explanations Of Conformity

Question 1

What are the 3 types of conformity

Answer 1

Internalisation, identification and compliance

Question 2

Who is the psychologist that studied the types of conformity

Answer 2

Herbert Kelman

Question 3

What is the level of deepeness with the types of conformity

Answer 3

Compliance then identification and then internalisation is the deepest level

Question 4

What is compliance

Answer 4

When you ‘go along with others’ in public and but there’s not private/personal change in behaviour or opinions

Question 5

Is compliance short or long term

Answer 5

Short term

Question 6

what type of change does compliance result in

Answer 6

Superficial change

Question 7

What is identification

Answer 7

When you try having the same behaviour or opinions with the people you value so that you can fit in with them

Question 8

Is identification short or long term

Answer 8

It’s shirt term but is longer term than compliance

Question 9

What is internalisation

Answer 9

When there is a genuine acceptance of a norm and this your own personal , both private and public, change

Question 10

Is internalisation short or long term

Answer 10

Long term and mostly permanent

Question 11

Who studied the explanations of conformity

Answer 11

Deutsch and Gerald

Question 12

What did deutsch and Gerald develop

Answer 12

A two process theory arguing that there are 2 main reasons that people conform

Question 13

What the two explanations for conformity

Answer 13

Information Social Influence (ISI) and Normative Social Influence (NSI)

Question 14

Describe ISI as a explanation of conformity

Answer 14

About who has the better information e.g. when your in class and you aren’t sure about an answer but most of your class give the same answer, your likely to follow that because you feel they are right. You basically follow the behaviour of the group because you want to be right

Question 15

What type of process is ISI

Answer 15

Cognitive process because it is to o with what you think

Question 16

What type of change does ISI lead to

Answer 16

Permanent change in opinion/behaviour which is known as internalisation

Question 17

What type of situations does ISI usually come into

Answer 17

.when you are new to a person
.when there is ambiguity
.decisions have to be made quickly
.assume that the group is more likely to be right

Question 18

What is normative social influence NSI

Answer 18

It is about norms or typical behaviours for a social group

Question 19

What do norms regulate

Answer 19

Behaviours of groups and individuals

Question 20

What do people prefer because they don’t want to appear foolish

Answer 20

Prefer to gain social approval rather than being rejected

Question 21

What type of process is NSI

Answer 21

Emotional rather than cognitive

Question 22

What type of change does NSI lead to

Answer 22

Compliance- temporary change

Question 23

What types of situations is NSI likely to occur

Answer 23

.situations with strangers where you feel concerned about rejections
.people you are once red about because you want to gain social approval from them
.stressful situations where people have a greater need for social support

Question 24

What is one strength (without couterpoint) on the research of explanations of conformity

Answer 24

Research support for NSI as Asch saw that when answers were written down rather than said, conformity fell as there was no normative group pressure. Shows that some conformity is due to a desire not to be rejected by the group for disagreeing with them

Question 25

What is another strength of the research for types of conformity (with counterpoint)

Answer 25

There is research support for ISI from the study y Lucas et al and he found that participants conformed more to incorrect answers that were given when math problems were difficult be cause the situation became ambiguous and they didn’t want to be wrong so they relied on the answers they were given

Question 26

What is the counterpoint of the strength of research support for ISI

Answer 26

It is unclear to whether it is NSI or ISI in research studies or real low because certain situations may reduce NSI but also ISI therefore both interpretations are possible which then makes it hard to separate and both probably operate together

Question 27

What is the limitation on the research on the explanations of conformity

Answer 27

NSI doesn’t predict conformity in every case as some people are more concerned about being liked than by others than other people are. They are called nAffiliators. McGhee and Teevan found that nAffiliators are more likely to conform which shows us that there are some individual differences an can’t be fully explained by one general theory of situational pressure

Question 28

Who are nAffilitors

Answer 28

People who have a strong need for affiliation