Resistance to social influence

Question 1

What is resistance to social influence?

Answer 1

When an individual resists social pressure to obey or conform

Question 2

What is locus of control?

Answer 2

How responsible an individual feels for their actions

Question 3

What is an internal locus of control?

Answer 3

Belief that behaviour caused is by personal decisions/in control of behaviour

Question 4

What is an external locus of control?

Answer 4

Belief that behaviour is the result of external factors (luck)

Question 5

Which type of LOC is more likely to resist social influence?

Answer 5

Internal LOC

Question 6

Which type of LOC is less likely to resist social influence?

Answer 6

External LOC

Question 7

What are the 2 AO3 points of LOC?

Answer 7

1) Contradictory research
2) Research support

Question 8

What has been found about the LOC of young people?

Answer 8

It is becoming more external

Question 9

Who conducted a meta-analysis on LOC studies?

Answer 9

Twenge et al

Question 10

What did Twenge et al find?

Answer 10

That young Americans have increasingly believed that their fate was determined by luck and powerful others rather than their own actions

Question 11

What has happened to the LOC scores of students from 1960-2002?

Answer 11

They’ve become more external

Question 12

What did Twenge et al find regarding obedience?

Answer 12

There has been an increase in resistance to obedience since 1960

Question 13

Who repeated Milgram’s study to look at LOC?

Answer 13

Holland

Question 14

In Holland’s study, what percentage of those with an internal LOC didn’t continue to 450v?

Answer 14

37%

Question 15

In Holland’s study, what percentage of those with an external LOC didn’t continue to 450v?

Answer 15

24%

Question 16

What do Holland’s findings increase?

Answer 16

The reliability of the LOC explanation of resistance to social influence

Question 17

What is social support?

Answer 17

When a peer provides support by resisting social influence

Question 18

Why does social support increase resistance to social influence?

Answer 18

Seeing others disobey/resist social influence gives the observer confidence to do so

Question 19

What are the 2 types of social support?

Answer 19

Disobedient role model or dissenting peer (ally)

Question 20

What did Asch find when he gave his participants a confederate ally?

Answer 20

Conformity dropped from 33% to 5.5%

Question 21

What are the 2 AO3 points of social support?

Answer 21

1) Research support
2) RWA

Question 22

Who provides research support for social support?

Answer 22

Albrecht

Question 23

What did Albrecht evaluate?

Answer 23

A programme aimed at helping pregnant teenagers resist smoking

Question 24

In Albrecht’s study, how were the teenagers given social support?

Answer 24

They were assigned a mentor

Question 25

How long was Albrecht’s programme?

Answer 25

8 weeks

Question 26

What did Albrecht find?

Answer 26

That participants with a mentor were more likely to resist social influence compared to the control group

Question 27

What event provides real world support for social support?

Answer 27

The Rosenstrasse protest

Question 28

When was the Rosenstrasse protest?

Answer 28

1943

Question 29

Who were the protesters in the Rosenstrasse protest?

Answer 29

A group of German women

Question 30

What was being protested for in the Rosenstrasse protest?

Answer 30

For the Gestapo to release 2000 Jewish men

Question 31

What did the Gestapo threaten to do to the women protesting in the Rosenstrasse protest?

Answer 31

Open fire on them

Question 32

What was the end result of the Rosenstrasse protest?

Answer 32

The Jewish men were set free

Question 33

What real-life event does Milgram’s findings have applications to?

Answer 33

Rosenstrasse protest