types of conformity and explainations

Question 1

kelman 1958

Answer 1

• suggested there were three types of conformity
• internalisation
• identification
• compliance

Question 2

who suggested there were three types of conformity (name and date)

Answer 2

kelman 1958

Question 3

internalisation

Answer 3

• Private and public change in opinion and behaviour
• Usually a permanent change

Question 4

indentification

Answer 4

• A person conforms to a group because they value something about them.
• A person may publicly change opinion or behaviour, but not privately

Question 5

compliance

Answer 5

• Going along with others’ in public, but not change in private opinion or behaviour
• Behaviour or opinion stops when group pressure stops

Question 6

two explainations for conformity

Answer 6

• normative social influence
• infomational sociial influence

Question 7

Deutsch and Gerard

Answer 7

• developed the two-process theory, based on two basic human needs- the need to be liked and the need to be right.

Question 8

ISI

Answer 8

• Who has the better information
• follow the behaviour of the majority because we want to be right
• Cognitive process
• leads to internalisation
• More likely in new situations

Question 9

NSI

Answer 9

• It is an emotional process
• Lead to compliance
• Occurs with strangers, friends and in stressful situations

Question 10

strengths of NSI

Answer 10

• Asch’s research- participants said they conformed to avoid disapproval
• Conformity fell by 12.5% when answers were written down instead this avoided normative group pressure

Question 11

limitations of NSI

Answer 11

• does not predict conformity every time
• Some people really care about others liking them (nAffiliators) They want to relate to other people
  -Teevan found students who were nAffiliators were most likely to conform

Question 12

what is the name for people that really care about what others think of them

Answer 12

nAffiliators

Question 13

strengths of ISI

Answer 13

• Lucas et al. (2006) found participants conformed more often when the question was difficult

Question 14

limitations of ISI

Answer 14

• Asch found conformity reduced when there is a dissenting participant they may reduce power of ISI as they provide a source of social info and they reduce power of NSI as they provide social support Therefore, it is hard to separate ISI and NSI and both of them probably operate together in real-life