Types and explanations for conformity AO3

Question 1

What are the 4 evaluation points?

Answer 1

• research support for ISI
• research support for ISI
• individual differences affect NSI
• NSI has real world applications

Question 2

What evidence supports research support for NSI

Answer 2

LinkenBack and Perkins (2003)

Question 3

What evidence supports research support for ISI

Answer 3

Lucas (2006) and WittenBrink and Henley (1996)

Question 4

What evidence supports the individual differences for NSI

Answer 4

McGhee and Teevan (1967)

Question 5

What evidence suppports that NSI has real world applications

Answer 5

Nolan et al (2008)

Question 6

What did Wittenbrink and Henley (1996) find?

Answer 6

Participants exposed to negative information about African Americans (which they were led to believe was the majority view) later reported more negative beliefs about a black individual.

Question 7

Which explanation does Lucas et al (2006) support?

Answer 7

Informative Social Influence

Question 8

Lucas et al (2006) findings:

Answer 8

In a maths tests students we more likely to conform when they were faced with more difficult questions, than easier ones.

Question 9

What is a major limitation to research into explanations and types of conformity?

Answer 9

Temporal validity
- It is possible that the culture at the time caused different reasons for conformity

Question 10

Can the two-way process be merged? (Give an example)

Answer 10

Yes
Asch conformity decreased when someone else went against the majority, this means that not wanting to get it wrong and also be liked was considered

Question 11

What did McGhee and Teevan (1976) suggest?

Answer 11

Not everyone is as easily influenced by normative social influence
High need of affiliation were more likely to conform.

Question 12

What did Nolan et al (2008) investigate?

Answer 12

• whether people desired the influence of social norms on their energy conservation behaviour

Question 13

What did Nolan et al (2008) find?

Answer 13

• that the people who believed that the behaviour of their neighbors had the least impact on their own energy conservation, yet results show it had the strongest impact

Question 14

what did McGhee and Teevan (1967) find

Answer 14

some people have a greater need to be liked than others. They are called the nAffiliators, and they are more likely to conform