Comformity

Question 1

What are the three types of conformity?

Answer 1

Internalisation - individuals change their beliefs and behaviour publicly but also privately
Identification - individuals change their beliefs and behaviours in order of having someone like them
Compliance - individuals change their beliefs and behaviours within a particular group but private beliefs do not change

Question 2

What is informative social influence?

Answer 2

This is when a person conforms in order to gain knowledge, or because they believe that someone else is right.

Question 3

What is normative social influence?

Answer 3

This is when a person conforms in order to be accepted or to belong to a group.

Question 4

Outline the aims and procedures of Asch’s line study.

Answer 4

A - Investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform.
P - He used a lab experiment of 50 male students in a line judgment task, they had to choose which line was longer (A,B or C). Confederates gave 12/16 wrong answers on purpose, they said wrong first then the actual participant would answer last.

Question 5

Outlines the findings and conclusions of Asch’s line study.

Answer 5

F - Asch measured the number of times each participant conformed to the majority view. 1/3 of the participants confirmed with the clearly incorrect answer. About 75% conformed atleast once and 25% never did. Less than 1% never conformed.
C - they conform to fit in or they believe someone else is right.