Unit 2.1.6 Obedience + Conformity Flashcards

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Milgram’s experiment

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  • Teacher had to deliver brief shocks every time the student answered incorrectly
  • 100% delivered shocks over 300V
  • 65% delivered all the way to 450V
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Obedience

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  • Act of people changing their behaviour
  • In response to direct commands from an authority figure
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Factors affecting obedience

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  • Social proximity
  • Legitimacy of the authority figure
  • Group pressure
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Social proximity

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  • Closeness between two or more people
  • May include physical distance or closeness of relationship
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Legitimacy of the authority figure

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  • Concept referring to an authority figure
  • Who has a higher position/status in a social hierarchy
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Group pressure

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Occurrence in which other members reveal whether they are obedient to the authority figure or not

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Conformity

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  • Process by which people modify their ideas, attitudes, behaviours or perceptions
  • To more closely reflect those held by groups they belong or aspire to belong to
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Asch’s experiment

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  • Participants had to match the line shown with one of 3 options
  • 73% agreed with the confederate’s incorrect response at least once
  • 33% agreed in half or more trials
  • 24% didn’t conform
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Factors influencing conformity

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  • Social norms
  • Groupthink
  • Group shift
  • Deindividuation
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Social norms

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  • Society’s unofficial rules + expectations
  • Regarding how one should act
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