Social Flashcards
(21 cards)
What are the types of conformity?
• Compliance.
• Identification.
•Internalisation
Describe compliance.
Agreeing publically with a group but disagreeing in private.
Describe identification.
Temporarily adapting behaviours to the values of others.
Describe internalisation.
Accepting and agreeing with the group publicly and privately.
What are the explanations for conformity?
•Normative social influence.
•Informational social influence.
What is normative social influence?
The desire to be liked and accepted by the group.
What is informational social influence?
The desire to be right.
Or
Individual is unsure and lacks knowledge and wants to know.
What is the procedure for Asch’s study?
•123 male participants.
• 6-8 confederates.
•Line task.
•18 trials.
•12 critical trials- all confederates gave same wrong answer.
What were Asch’s findings?
• Participants gave wrong answer 36.8% of critical trials.
• 75% of participants conformed at least once.
What variables did Asch investigate?
•Group size- 1 confederate = conformity dropped by 3%, 2 confederates = conformity 12.8%, 3 confederates = conformity 31.8%.
• Unanimaty- conformity dropped to 5%.
• Task difficulty- ambiguous task = increase in conformity.
Describe Zimbardos findings.
• Both guards and prisoners settled in quickly.
• Guards adopt role quickly and easily.
• Harassment began hours in.
• Two days prisoners rebelled.
• Prisoners became more submissive and guards became for violent.
What are the explanations for obedience?
• Milgram- key name
• Agentic state.
• Legitimacy of authority.
What is the agentic state?
• People will obey authority figure if situational factors are present.
What is legitimacy of authority?
An individual is likely to obey to a person who they believe is an authority figure.
What were Milgrams’ findings?
65% of participants went to 450 volts.
100% of participants went to 300 volts.
What were Milgrams’ variables?
Proximity- how close/ far away someone is.
Uniform- if the persons outfit shows they’re an authority figure.
Location- location of study.
Describe what is meant by the authoritarian personality.
A dispositional explanation.
Adorno- F scale.
You respect and obey to authority figures.
Based from childhood experiences.
What is the F-scale?
Andorno.
Questionnaires measured authoritarianism personality.
Rating of fascism.
What is social support?
A form of resistance to social influence.
If someone else resists, allows an individual to go against the authority.
What is locus of control?
Extent at which someone believes that have control over their lives.
Internal locus of control- do have control and responsibility over own lives.
External locus of control- no control over lives and lack or responsibility.
What factors allow minority influence to occur?
Commitment.
Consistency.
Flexibility.
