Resistance to social influence

Question 1

Resistance to Social Influence

Answer 1

the ability of people to withstand the
social pressure to conform to the majority or to obey authority.

Question 2

2 types of resistance to social influence

Answer 2

Social support
Locus of control

Question 3

How do you reduce conformity?

Answer 3

-If there is a dissenting peer who provides social support
-The majority is no longer unanimous and that encourages further separation from the majority -People are now free to follow their own consciousness making it even less unanimous

Question 4

What is a dissenting peer / what do they represent

Answer 4

-They represent a model of independent behavior

Question 5

How can you resist obedience

Answer 5

-dissenter acts as a model of disobedience
-No longer unanimous obedience encourages further separation
-Questions the legitimacy of authority,

Question 6

How does someone resisting obedience change the people around them?

Answer 6

-It frees individuals from the agentic state making them aware of their own consequences and responsibilities
-This is because the legitimacy of the authority has been challenged

Question 7

Social support, real world application

Answer 7

-Albrecht looked at a programme to help pregnant teens
resist peer pressure to smoke.
-Social support was provided by a “mentor/buddy”.
-They found at the end of the programme, those with a buddy were significantly less likely to smoke than a control group who did
not have a buddy.

Question 8

Social support research support

Answer 8

-Replication of Asche’s study
-Conformity decreased from 32% to 5% with a dissenting peer

Question 9

Locus of Control is

Answer 9

-How much a person feels they have control over the events and outcomes of their lives
-It is set on a scale from high internal LoC to high external LoC

Question 10

Internal locus of control

Answer 10

-I control the consequences of my behavior
-more likely to be able to resist pressure to conform or obey:
-they are more likely to base their decisions on their own beliefs
-more self-confident,
-more achievement-oriented, have higher intelligence and less need for social approval.
-greater resistance to social influence

Question 11

High external locus of control

Answer 11

-The consequences of my behavior are beyond my control
-less likely to be able to resist pressure to conform or obedience
-they are less likely to base their decisions on their own beliefs
-more self-confident

Question 12

LOC research support

Answer 12

Holland
-Replicated Milgrims research and measured whether participants were externals or internals
-14% more externals continued to the highest shock compared to the internals

Question 13

LOC Contradicting research

Answer 13

Twenge
-analyzed data from American obedience studies over a 40 year time period and found that over he time span people have become more resistant obedience but more external