Conformity: types and explanations
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- Created on: 29-02-20 11:05
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- Confortmity: types and explanations
- types
- compliance
- agreeing with the majority publically but not privately
- Agreeing with a group of people you have just met that a TV show is good that you haven't watched privately
- agreeing with the majority publically but not privately
- identification
- agreeing with a group that you value publically but not privately
- e.g eating vegetarian food with your friends but not in private
- agreeing with a group that you value publically but not privately
- internalisation
- when a person genuinely accepts the groups norms
- e.g voting in a public election
- when a person genuinely accepts the groups norms
- compliance
- explanations
- informational social influence
- agreeing with the majority because they are likely to be right
- normative social influence
- Agreeing with the majority because you want to fit in
- laughing at a joke you don't find funny
- most likely to occur when you fear rejection from a group of strangers, friends or family
- laughing at a joke you don't find funny
- Agreeing with the majority because you want to fit in
- informational social influence
- evaluation
- research support
- P- Lucas et al asked students to give answers to easy and hard maths problems
- B- conformity increased when answers were more difficult, especially for students who rated their maths ability as poor
- S- we conform in situations where we don't feel we know the answer (ISI)
- B- conformity increased when answers were more difficult, especially for students who rated their maths ability as poor
- P- Lucas et al asked students to give answers to easy and hard maths problems
- individual differences
- P- Asch found students were less conformist than other participants
- B- supported by Perrin and Spencer's study on engineering students
- S- people who are knowledgable are less influenced by the 'right' view of a majority, therefore there are individual differences on how people respond to conformity
- B- supported by Perrin and Spencer's study on engineering students
- P- Asch found students were less conformist than other participants
- it's oversimplified
- P- approach behaviour is due to NSI or ISI
- B- Conformity was reduced in Asch's study when there was a dissenting partner. Could be due to NSI (social support) or ISI (alternate source of info)
- S- questions the view of whether or not NSI and ISI operate seperately
- B- Conformity was reduced in Asch's study when there was a dissenting partner. Could be due to NSI (social support) or ISI (alternate source of info)
- P- approach behaviour is due to NSI or ISI
- NSI has research support
- P- when Asch asked participants why they conformed they stated it was out of fear of rejection
- B- when answers were written down, conforimty dropped to 12.5%
- S- supports their claim that they were conforming due to NSI
- H- nAffliators care more about being liked and are more likely to conform (McGhee). The general theory doesn't cover for this difference
- S- supports their claim that they were conforming due to NSI
- B- when answers were written down, conforimty dropped to 12.5%
- P- when Asch asked participants why they conformed they stated it was out of fear of rejection
- research support
- types
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