SOCIAL INFLUENCE A01

Question 1

What are the types of social influence?

Answer 1

Compliance
Identification
internalisation

Question 2

What are the explanations for social influence?

Answer 2

Normative social influence
Informational social influence

Question 3

What does it mean by compliance?

Answer 3

The individual agrees externally but can keep personal opinion
The behaviour change is to avoid rejection and is because of NSI

Question 4

What does it mean by identification?

Answer 4

Behaviour and values only change when with the group because they value membership

Question 5

What does it mean by internalisation?

Answer 5

Personal opinion genuinely changes TO MATCH GROUP even when group are not present normally due to ISI

Question 6

What does it mean by Normative social influence?

Answer 6

Based on the desire to be liked and avoid rejection NSI is a temporary change in behaviour and “superficial”

Question 7

When is NSI most likely to occur in terms of strangers

Answer 7

when you’re in a situation with strangers

Question 8

When is NSI most likely to occur in terms of people you know

Answer 8

When you’re around people you know because you don’t want to be rejected by that group

Question 9

When can NSI be worsened

Answer 9

In stressful situations when there is a greater need for social support.

Question 10

What does it mean by Informational social influence?

Answer 10

Based on the desire to be correct, they look to majority guidance on how to behave when the correct behaviour is uncertain assuming they have more knowledge. It is a permanent change

Question 11

What task were participants asked to complete in Asch’s study

Answer 11

Line judgement task, only one person was a true participant

Question 12

How many critical trials were there?

Answer 12

12

Question 13

how were they positioned in seats?

Answer 13

The confederates answered first

Question 14

What percent of the students always gave the right answer?

Answer 14

23%

Question 15

What percentage conformed at least once

Answer 15

72%

Question 16

what percentage always got the wrong answer?

Answer 16

5%

Question 17

In Asch’s group size variation what percentage of participants conformed when two confederates were present

Answer 17

13%

Question 18

in Asch’s unanimity variation what percentage of participants conformed when a confederate gave the correct response

Answer 18

5.5%

Question 19

What does it mean by social roles

Answer 19

a socially defined pattern of behaviour that is expected of a person with a certain social position or who belong in a particular social category

Question 20

How did zimbardo study conformity to social roles in a prison setting

Answer 20

Created a mock prison in the stanford university basement

Question 21

What was Zimbardo’s aim?

Answer 21

To see if typical mentally healthy people would conform to the social roles of guards (oppressive) and prisoners (submissive)

Question 22

What did zimbardo do to ensure mental stability

Answer 22

Conducted psychological testing

Question 23

How many participants were selected in Zimbardo’s study

Answer 23

24 male students in the US

Question 24

What was the first example of prisoner experience

Answer 24

Being arrested at home by real police officers, booked, deloused and given a basic prison uniform

Question 25

What were the guards given to make them seem like a position of authority

Answer 25

uniforms,clubs, whistles and reflective sunglasses and were instructed to run the prison without harming the prisoners

Question 26

what did Zimbardo find?

Answer 26

Participants quickly lost their personal identity and adapted to their assigned social roles

Question 27

In what ways did the prisoners try to resist?

Answer 27

Barricaded themselves in their cells

Question 28

In what ways did the guard’s behaviour change

Answer 28

They became authorative and sadistically aggressive