Conformity
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- Created on: 17-11-20 16:30
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- Conformity
- Dispositional attribution: suggesting that something about them (e.g personailty) causes someones behaviour
- Situational attribution: suggesting that their situation causes someones behaviour
- 3 types of conformity Kelman(1958)
- internalisation
- Change in public and private belief and it's long-term
- Compliance
- internalisation
- When a person changes their attitude or behaviour due to 'real' or 'imagined' group pressure
- Variables that affect conformity
- Asch (1951)
- method: 6 confederates, 1 real participants. had to match line with a diagram. Confeds gave the obvious wrong answer 12/18 trials
- aim:To see the effect of group conformity
- conclusion: people will conform with the group even if they believe the group is wrong.(NSI)
- evaluation: its unethical, participants were deceived because they were told the confederates were participants too
- Group size: the more of the majority there is the more likely to confrom. (asch)
- Task difficulty: As the task is harder to do more likely someone is to confrom due to ISI
- unanimity: if there is a non-conforming person the conformity levels fall
- Asch (1951)
- Asch (1951)
- method: 6 confederates, 1 real participants. had to match line with a diagram. Confeds gave the obvious wrong answer 12/18 trials
- aim:To see the effect of group conformity
- conclusion: people will conform with the group even if they believe the group is wrong.(NSI)
- evaluation: its unethical, participants were deceived because they were told the confederates were participants too
- identification
- change in public and private belief but its short-term
- 3 types of conformity Kelman(1958)
- internalisation
- Change in public and private belief and it's long-term
- Compliance
- internalisation
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