Locus of control
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- Created on: 25-04-18 17:03
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- Resistance to social influence
- Locus of control
- Persons perception of personal control over their own behaviour
- Internal LOC - we control events in our life and is largerly a cosequence of our own ability and effort
- Rely less on the opinions of others - better able to resist social influence
- Achievement-oriented and more likely to be leaders than followers
- External LOC- believe what happens to them is determined by external factors, such as luck and influence of others
- Passive attitudes, taking less responsability for their actions and less independent
- Resistance to authority
- Holland repated Milgrams study and measured ppts as external or internal
- 37% internals didnt continue to highest shock - 23% of externals didnt continue
- Internals show greater resistance to authority
- 37% internals didnt continue to highest shock - 23% of externals didnt continue
- Holland repated Milgrams study and measured ppts as external or internal
- Limited role of LOC
- LOC only works in noval situations
- People who have obeyed in previous/similar situations in the past are likely to do so again even if they have high internal LOC
- LOC only works in noval situations
- Meta-analysis
- Relationship between LOC and different forms of social influence
- Postitive corrolation between scores of internality/externailty and scorens in measures of persuasion, social influence and conformity
- Those who scored higheron external LOC tend to be more easily persuaded and easily conform
- = High validity
- Relationship between LOC and different forms of social influence
- Historical trend of LOC
- Meta-analysis found young americans increasing belived that their fate was down to luck and poweful others rather than their own actions
- Increasing externality in terms of alienatation experienced by young people and the tendancy to explain misfortunes on outside forces
- Meta-analysis found young americans increasing belived that their fate was down to luck and poweful others rather than their own actions
- Locus of control
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