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Question 1

social support

Answer 1

-one reason people can resist pressure to conform or obey is they have an ally supporting their point of view
-help remain independent
-npo longer fear being ridiculed
-avoid normative social influence
-more likely diobey

Question 2

social support and resisting conformity

Answer 2

-ally support their point of view
-avoid NSI
-resist pressure to conform

Question 3

social support and resisiting obedience

Answer 3

-resist pressure to obey if there is a sense from watching others that obedience does not have to be the ‘norm’
-if have support may desire to disobey as more confident in becoming dissenter and know other will disobey with them

Question 4

Asch variation support for resisting conformity

Answer 4

-even when confederate gave alternative wrong answer, conformity dropped
-simply the fact someoneone else not following majority enables partiicpants to break unamity

Question 5

Milgram variation support resisiting obedience

Answer 5

-obedience dropped from 65% to 10% when genuine participant joined by disobedient confederate

Question 6

dispositional attribute to social resistance

Answer 6

-locus of control

Question 7

who proposed the idea of locus of control

Answer 7

Rotter (1966)

Question 8

locus of control

Answer 8

-the extent to which people believe they have control over their lives
-can be measured on scale of high internal to high external

Question 9

internal locus of control

Answer 9

-believe they have great deal of control over lives
-attribute success and failures to themselves
-more likely resist social influence and demonstrate autonomous behaviour

Question 10

external locus of control

Answer 10

-feel that many things which happen are outside their control
-attribute successes and failures to luck or fate
-less likely resist social influence
-less likely take personal responisbility
-more need for social approval

Question 11

Research evidence supports link between locus of control and resistence to obedience

Answer 11

-Holland (1967) repeated Milgram study and measured whether pariticipants internals or externals
-37% internals did not continue to highest shock (some resistence)
-only 20% externals resisted
-internals showed more resistence
-increase validity of LOC explanation

Question 12

Limitation research against LOC

Answer 12

-Twenge et at abnalysed data from LOC studies over years
-found people have become more independent but also more external
-if resistence linked to LOC we would expect people to become more internal
-challange link between LOC and resistence
-however may be due to chnaging society many things increasing outside personal control

Question 13

Limitation LOC exaggerated

Answer 13

-role of LOC in resisting social influence may be exaggerated
-Rotter found only important in novel situations
-little influence over behaviour in familiar situations where previous experience more important
-often overlooked
-if people conformed or obeyed in specicfic situations past likely to continue even if high internal
-cannot be applied all situations