CONFORMITY
Asch, types of conformity, other effecting factors.
- Created by: niamh
- Created on: 14-05-14 10:47
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- CONFORMITY
- Types of conformity
- Compliance
- Little or no private attitude change
- Internalisation
- Point of view is the same
- Identification
- Feeling a desire to be like others
- Kelman
- Compliance
- Changing what we do/say in response to a majority group
- Asch
- Research conformity to majority
- Vision test, different length lines, fing the "standard"
- 123 male undergraduates
- Split into groups, all but one confederates
- Confederates give incorrect 12/18 trials
- 36.8% true ppt incorrect ie. conformed
- WHY?
- distortion of perception
- did see lines in same way
- distortion of judgement
- felt doubt about own views
- distortion of action
- trusted own views but conformed to avoid diapproval
- distortion of perception
- Perrin and Spencer
- UK, 1970s
- only 1 of 396 conformed
- different time = different responses
- more likely to conform to authority
- Other factors effecting
- Difficulty of task
- Asch - smaller lines increased conformity
- Size of majority
- Majority of 3 increases conformity by 30%
- Unanimity of majority
- When confederate is supported conformity drops from 32% to 5.5%
- Who we know
- Conformity is higher with people you know
- How imporant is this?
- Difficulty of task
- Types of conformity
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