Conformity
- Created by: dave_griffin55
- Created on: 13-04-14 17:59
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- Conformity
- 3 Types
- Internalisation
- going along with it because you actually agree with it
- Compliance
- going along with it because you want to avoid disapproval
- Identification
- going along with it because you agree because you want approval
- Internalisation
- Majority Influence
- Asch (1951)
- Lab experiment
- Around 1/3 of participants conformed
- Strengths
- High Internal Validity - study without confederates
- Easily Repliclible
- Weakness
- Anti-communist era - people afraid to be different
- High Internal Validity - study without confederates
- Asch (1951)
- Explanations For Conformity
- Normative Social Influence
- Compliance
- Normative Social Influence
- Social Impact Theory
- Latané
- Strength
- Powerful person = More conformity
- Number
- More people = Higher conformity
- Immediacy
- More immediate = Higher conformity
- Strength
- Latané
- Obedience
- Milgram (1963)
- Lab Experiment
- Participant = teacher, confederate = learner
- Teacher asks series of questions
- If given wrong, shock given
- Shocks increase 15V
- If given wrong, shock given
- Teacher asks series of questions
- Participant = teacher, confederate = learner
- All participants went to 300V
- 65% went to 450V
- Variations
- Obedience decreased
- Presence of victim
- Presence of allies
- Obedience decreased
- Strengths
- Easily replicable
- Weaknesses
- Socially Sensitive - inexcusable actions are because of situation not personality
- Lack of Internal Validity - study is about trust, not obediance
- Lack of Ecological Validity - tasks not given in day-to-day life
- Lack of Internal Validity - study is about trust, not obediance
- Socially Sensitive - inexcusable actions are because of situation not personality
- Lab Experiment
- Explanations For Obedience
- Agentic Shift
- People easily go from autonomus to agentic
- Role of Buffers
- If there is a buffer, it is easier to obey
- Gradual Commitment
- Easy to commit when smaller commitment given
- Monocausal Emphasis - other reasons - Nazi's is Anti-sematism
- Agentic Shift
- Resisting Social Influence
- Resisting Obedience
- Location - status of location
- Proximity - if victim is near, obedience drops
- Location - status of location
- Resisting Conformity
- Non-Conformist Personality - personality where you don't follow social norms
- Moral Considerations - if something is morally wrong, less likely to conform
- Presence of an Ally - because not alone, more likely to conform
- Moral Considerations - if something is morally wrong, less likely to conform
- Non-Conformist Personality - personality where you don't follow social norms
- Individual Differences
- Locus Of Control
- High Internal - personal responsibility
- High External - events happen due to external factors
- Attributional Style
- Locus Of Control
- Resisting Obedience
- Milgram (1963)
- 3 Types
- Given 3 lines + 1
- Lab experiment
- High Internal - personal responsibility
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