Obedience :Resistance to social influence Flashcards

Question

resistance to social infleunce is

Answer 1

ability of people to withstand the social presure to confrom to majority or obey authority this ablity to withstand social pressure influenced by dispositional and situational factord

Answer 2

prescence of people who resist pressures to conform or obey can help others to do the same these people act as models to show otehrs that resitance to SI is possible

Answer 3

refers to the sense we each have about what directs events in our lives internals believe mostly responsible for what happens to them external beleie mainly a matter of luck or other outside forces

Answer 4

research also supports the idea that individuals with an internal locus of control are less likely to conform. Spector (1983) used Rotter’s locus of control scale to determine whether locus of control is associated with conformity. From 157 students, Spector found that individuals with a high internal locus of control were less likely to conform than those with a high external locus of control, but only in situations of normative social influence, where individuals conform to be accepted. There was no difference between the two groups for informational social influence. This suggests that normative social influence, the desire to fit in, is more powerful than informational social influence, the desire to be right, when considering locus of control.

Answer 5

One strenght of research showing the importance of social support in resisting social influence is real world application researcehrs evaluated 8 week programme designed to help pregnant teens resistg peer pressure to smoke and found when social support was provided by a slighlty older buddy teens were significantly less likely to smoke than a control group showing social support can help young people resist social influence as a part of intervention in teh real world furthermore this research has important implications on other areas of society . stopping preggo tens from engagin and damagin behaviour during pregn menas likelihood of givign birth ot baby with with health problems also reduced meaning healthcare workers already stretched to capacity wont have to expend resources on medical issues that couldve been prevented in advance and will be able to focus attention on people in need of care for reasons beyond their contrl

Answer 6

evidence to support role of dissenting peers in resisting social infleunce gamson et al asked pt to work in groups to gather evidence to run a smear campaign for oil company found higher levels of resistance in study than milgram as people working in groups so could discuss what they were told to do found 88% of people rebelled against orders showing peer support can lead to disobedience by undermining legiticimacy of authority figure

Answer 7

RESEARCH EVIDENCE supports link between LOC and resistance to obedience holland repeated milgram baseline study and measured whether pt were internals /externals found 37% of internals didnt continue to highest shock levels - showed resistance whereas only 23% of externals didnt continue internals showed greater resistance to authority this shows resistance is at least partly related to LOC whihc increases validity of LOC as explanation of disobedience

Answer 8

despote supporting evidence rotter himself suggestsed it can only explain resistance in novel situations when peeps in situations where they've conformed or obeyed in the apst likely ot repeat this behaviour next time situation comes around meaning LOC may only come into effect when situation is unknown, and therefore correct course of action is unclear making LOC only a ltd explanation for resistance however doesnt mean its worthless expl as it can xplain individual instances of resistance in research, simply means we have to be open and aware to teh influences of other factors alongside a perosns LOC

Obedience :Resistance to social influence Flashcards

(32 cards)