Conformity

Question 1

What are the 3 types of Conformity?

Answer 1

-Compliance
-Internalisation
-Identification

Question 2

What is Compliance?

Answer 2

Individuals go along with the group in order to gain their approval or to avoid their disapproval.

Question 3

Is Compliance public or private?

Answer 3

Public-only the views/behaviours are displayed in public.

Question 4

What type of change Compliance and what influences this change?

Answer 4

Superficial Change which is influenced as group pressure.

Question 5

What is Internalisation?

Answer 5

Individuals go along with the group because of an acceptance of their views.

Question 6

Is Internalisation public or private?

Answer 6

Both

Question 7

What happens in Internalisation when they are exposed to views of other members of the group?

Answer 7

Individuals are encouraged to engage in validation.

Question 8

What type of change Internalisation and what influences this change?

Answer 8

Usually a permanent change and persists in the absence of the group-attitudes have become part of how the person thinks.(internalised)

Question 9

What is Identification?

Answer 9

Individual might accept influence as they want to be associated with another person or group.

Question 10

Is Identification public or private?

Answer 10

Public

Question 11

What does the individual get out of the group in Identification?

Answer 11

By accepting the group’s attitudes and behaviours they feel more part of it.

Question 12

What does Identification contain?

Answer 12

Elements of both Compliance and Internalisation.

Question 13

What is the reason for accepting in Identification?

Answer 13

Accepts the attitudes and behaviours they are adopting as true and right but the purpose is to be accepted as a member of the group.

Question 14

What are the two explanations of Conformity?

Answer 14

-Normative Social Influence
-Informative Social Influence

Question 15

What is Normative Social Influence?

Answer 15

All about Norms and what is normal for a social group.

Question 16

When is Normative Social Influence likely to occur?

Answer 16

In situations with strangers where you may feel concerned about rejection or approval of friends which we may have a greater need for social support.

Question 17

What change does Normative Social Influence lead to and what does it change?

Answer 17

Temporary Change in opinions or behaviours. Emotional rather than cognitive process.

Question 18

What is Informative Social Influence?

Answer 18

Who has the better information-you or the group.

Question 19

When does Informative Social Influence occur?

Answer 19

If we are uncertain about what behaviours/beliefs are right or wrong. We follow the behaviour of the majority of the group as we want to be right.

Question 20

What type of process is Informative Social Influence?

Answer 20

Cognitive Process

Question 21

What is one strength of NSI?

Answer 21

Evidence supports it as an explanation of conformity.

Question 22

Who is the psychologist which relates to this and studied it?

Answer 22

Asch

Question 23

What did Asch’s participants say about their conformity?

Answer 23

They conformed as they felt self conscious giving the correct answer in the experiment and were therefore afraid of disapproval.

Question 24

What happened when the answers were written down instead of answered verbally?

Answer 24

Conformity fell to 12.5% meaning that there were no normative group pressure.

Question 25

What does this stat display about conformity?

Answer 25

Some conformity is due to a desire not to be rejected by the group.(NSI)

Question 26

What did Luas et al find out about ISI?

Answer 26

Participants conformed more often to incorrect answers they gave when the maths problems were difficult.

Question 27

What was the difference of when it was hard vs when it was easy?

Answer 27

E-participants ‘knew their own mind’
H-situation became ambiguous

Question 28

What does this difference show about ISI and conformity?

Answer 28

ISI is a valid explanation of conformity as the results were what as expected.

Question 29

What is the counterpoint of the research support for ISI?

Answer 29

Hard to separate ISI and NSI as both processes probably operate together in most real world conformity situations.

Question 30

What are the 3 basic individual differences in NSI?

Answer 30

-Doesn’t predict conformity in every case.
-Some people are focused on being liked by others.
Some people have the need for ‘affiliation’. (nAffiliators)

Question 31

What did Paul McGhee and Richard Teevan find out about students who were nAffiliators?

Answer 31

More likely to conform

Question 32

NSI and Individual Differences

Answer 32

NSI underlines conformity for some more than others. There are individual differences in conformity which cannot be fully explained by one generalised theory.

Question 33

What does the counterpoint suggest about the NSI and ISI distinction?

Answer 33

Not useful as it is impossible to work out which is really operating.

Question 34

What could Lucus et al’s findings be subject to?

Answer 34

NSI/ISI or both.

Question 35

What does Asch’s research demonstrate?

Answer 35

Clearly demonstrates NSI and ISI as both the reasons for conformity

Question 36

Which is stronger: Conformity or Internalisation? And why?

Answer 36

Internalisation as individuals adopt different social roles for different social situations and only to conform to particular roles whilst in those situations.

Question 37

In what way is conformity to social roles useful?

Answer 37

Understanding and predicting social behaviour, which brings reassuring sense of order to our social interactions.

Question 38

Which is stronger: Conformity or Compliance? And what does it involve?

Answer 38

Conformity. Involving both private and public acceptance of the behaviour and attitudes exhibited.