Psychology Social Influence
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- Created on: 03-05-21 11:40
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- Social Influence
- Types of conformity
- Internalisation
- Compliance
- Identification
- Explanations of conformity
- Normative social influence
- Informational social influence
- Asch's study for conformity
- Procedure - Confederates gave wrong answers to see if naive participants would conform.
- Findings - Overall 25% did not conform on any trials. 75% conformed once.
- Asch's Variations
- Group size - Confederates increased to 3, went up to 32.8%.
- unanimity - Dissenter introduced, conformity decreased by 1/4.
- Task Difficulty - Lines closer together, conformity increased due to ISI
- Procedure - Confederates gave wrong answers to see if naive participants would conform.
- Zimbardo - Conformity to social roles
- Procedure - Random allocation of prison guard or prisoner. Blindfolded - lived in mock prison
- Findings - Guards brutal, 2 more released. Had to stop after 6 days.
- Conclusion - People behave the way they think they should.
- Milgram - Obedience
- Procedure - 40 male Ps. Teacher, learner and experimenter in room. Volt machine 15-450V
- Findings - 65% went to the highest shock level. None of them stopped below 300v.
- Variations
- Location
- Proximity
- Uniform
- Social-psychological Factors for obedience.
- The Autonomous Sate - Independent, taking responsibility.
- The agentic state - no responsibilities for your actions.
- Legitimacy of authority - give up our own power in hopes for authority to use it for society.
- Disposal explanation
- Adorno designed the F-scale. Correlation between authoritarian personality and stereotyping.
- Origins of an AP - overly harsh parents, Child not expressing their resentment.
- Resisting SI
- Social Support - Asch's study.
- Locus of Control - Rotter's idea. internal and external
- Minority Influence -
- Commitment
- Flexibility
- Consistency
- Moscovi - Tile colouring
- Social Change
- 1. drawing attention 2. consistency 3. deeper processing 4. augmentation principle 5. snowball effect 6. social cryptomnesia.
- Types of conformity
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