Resistance to Social Influence
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- Created on: 13-12-16 08:40
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- Resistance to Social Influence
- Locus of control
- Rotter 1966
- Aim
- Investigate Internal and External LOC
- Method and design
- Review Article
- Sample
- 6 pieces of research into individual perceptions on ability to control outcomes based on reinforcement
- Findings
- Participants who were given control over situations = show behaviours would enable them to cope with potential threats.
- Compared with those participants who thought that chance or other non-controllable forces determined the effects of their behaviour.
- Conclusion
- Rotter concluded that an individuals LOC would affect many behaviours.
- Evaluation
- Reductionist
- fails to consider wider factors such as a person's mood or the impact of others
- Determinism
- argues that actions are down to our LOC
- Useful
- when paired with CBT to change a person's LOC
- Methodology
- study used secondary sources and so issues from those studies may have translated into the Rotter stud
- Reductionist
- Aim
- Internal and External
- Internal
- Make things happen
- Less conforming/ obedient
- More independent
- Better at resisting social influences to conform
- great deal of personal control over their behaviour
- More likely to take responsibility for their actions
- External
- Things happen to you
- Result of luck or external influences
- More susceptible to social influence
- More likely to conform
- Things happen to you
- Internal
- Rotter 1966
- Social Support
- perception that we have assistance/ backing from other people
- Asch variation
- presence of a dissident (confederate that did not conform)
- decrease in conformity levels
- made true participant feel more confident
- in own decision
- in rejecting the majority position
- presence of a dissident (confederate that did not conform)
- Breaks unanimity
- Milgram variation
- two other participants (confederates) were teachers
- refused to obey
- Confederate 1 - stopped at 150volts
- Confederate 2 - stopped at 215volts
- Presence of others rejecting authority figure dropped obedience to 10%
- two other participants (confederates) were teachers
- Locus of control
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