Social Influence Specification

Question 1

Types of conformity

Answer 1

Types of conformity: internalisation, identification, and compliance.

Question 2

Variables affecting conformity- asch research

Answer 2

Variables affecting conformity including group size, unanimity, and task difficulty as investigated by asch (original vs variation)

Question 3

Explanations of conformity

Answer 3

Explanations for conformity: informational social influence and normative social influence (two process model)

Question 4

Zimbardos research (Stanford prison experiment)

Answer 4

Conformity to social roles (identification) as investigated by zimbardo (study’s aims, procedures and findings)

Question 5

Milgrams original experiment

Answer 5

Explanations for obedience: agentic state, legitimacy of authority, situational variables affecting obedience including proximity and location, as investigated and uniform by milgram (Original experiment didnt include situational variables or legitimacy/agentic)

Question 6

Situational variables

Answer 6

Explanations for obedience: agentic state and legitimacy of authority, and situational variables affecting obedience including proximity (force hand on or in separate room/phone) and location (run down/yale uni) and uniform (lab coat/ordinary clothes) by milgram

Question 7

Legitimacy of authority

Answer 7

Explanations for obedience: agentic state and legitimacy of authority (Yale/run down and uniform/non uniform), and situational variables affecting obedience including proximity, location and uniform as investigated by milgram.

Question 8

Agentic state

Answer 8

Explanations for obedience: agentic state (autonomous to agentic and milgrams research) and legitimacy of authority, and situational variables affecting obedience including proximity, location and uniform as investigated by milgram.

Question 9

Dispositional explantion

Answer 9

Dispositional explanation for obedience: the authoritarian personality (Adorno and the F scale)

Question 10

Social support

Answer 10

Explanations of resistance to social influence, including social support and locus of control. (Milgram and asch)

Question 11

Locus of control

Answer 11

Explanations of resistance to social influence, including social support and locus of control. (The continuum of external to internal)

Question 12

Minority influence

Answer 12

Minority influence including reference to consistency, commitment and flexibity (the process of change)

Question 13

Social influence and social change

Answer 13

The role of social influence processes in social change (minority influence with 6 stages, attention, consistency, deeper processing, augmentation, snowball, social cryptomnesia) (conformity and obedience creating and then maintaining social change)