Conformity
- Created by: Chloe Trotter
- Created on: 18-11-15 15:50
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- Conformity
- Types
- Identification
- Adjusting behaviour to fit in with a desired group.
- Both public and private but only lasts as long as the group
- E.g. Dressing in gothic clothes to fit in with a group of goth friends
- Internalisation
- Believing you are wrong and others are right so changing your behaviours/ opinions
- E.g. Converting your religion
- Both public and private and it lasts outside of the group.
- Complience
- E.g. Loving a musician while with people who also love them but hating them privately.
- A superficial agreement to go along with a group publically.
- Not when in private
- Identification
- Explanations
- Informative social influence
- The desire to be right
- Lucas et al: Increases with the difficulty of the task
- Wittenbrink: Racism
- Normative social influence
- The desire to fit in and be liked
- Jenness: Jelly beans
- Shultz et al: Reuse towels
- Informative social influence
- Asch
- Line test for majority influence
- Done by 123 white American males
- 6 Confederates would purposely give incorrect answers to see if participant would conform
- Increasing group size increased conformity
- Up to three more then stopped
- The harder the task the higher the conformity
- Dissender reduced conformity
- Increasing group size increased conformity
- 75% conformed at least once
- Evaluation
- Lab study so high amount of control
- Supporting research from Lucas, Bond and Smith
- Self-selected sample could show bias
- A child of it's time: 1950's
- Lack of mundane realism
- Line test for majority influence
- Zimbardo
- Mock prision where 24 students were randomly given the part of a guard or prisioner
- Guards
- Became increasingly brutal
- Wore khaki uniforms and dark shades
- Prisioners became increasingly depressed and dependant
- Refered to by numbers
- Taken from their homes by the police and stripped. Not allowed underwear.
- Participants conformed to social roles
- Dispositional influence: only about 1/3 of the guards went brutal
- Lack of research support
- Many MANY ethical issues
- Guards
- Played the wardon
- Mock prision where 24 students were randomly given the part of a guard or prisioner
- Types
- Identification
- Adjusting behaviour to fit in with a desired group.
- Both public and private but only lasts as long as the group
- E.g. Dressing in gothic clothes to fit in with a group of goth friends
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