Resistance

Question 1

What is social support?

Answer 1

When someone else disagrees with the majority

Question 2

How did social support affect Milgram?

Answer 2

A dissenters provided moral support
Milgram’s experiment was replicated with disobedient confederate
Obedience dropped from 65% to 10%

Question 3

What did Albrecht do?

Answer 3

2006, 8 weeks, 14-19 year olds
Made a program to help pregnant teens resist smoking
Those who had a “buddy” (social support) were less likely to smoke
Can help young people resist social influence

Question 4

What is Locus of Control (LoC)?

Answer 4

The sense of control people have over their success, failures and events in life

Question 5

What are high internal and high external LoC?

Answer 5

Internal= “I control my destiny”
External= “they control my destiny”

Question 6

What does a high internal LoC result in?

Answer 6

More likely to resist pressure from others
Base decisions on own opinions

Question 7

Evaluation of LoC

Answer 7

Too simplistic to suggest behaviour is caused by either- depends on the situation
Holland repeated milgram with measuring their LoC
37% of internals didn’t go to 450v
23% of externals didn’t go to 450v
Internals showed greater resistance so it’s partly LoC