Social influences
- Created by: mina townsend
- Created on: 19-05-22 22:13
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- Conformity
- Asch's study: line study
- variables: unanimity, group size, and task difficulty
- - artificial task & task, limited application, counteracting evidence
- + research support
- Social influences
- Obedience
- Milgram: electric shock experiment
- everyone is willing to obey orders out of fear
- - low internal validity, alternative interpretations of findings
- + research support, effects of Milgram's study were genuine
- - low internal validity, alternative interpretations of findings
- affecting variables: proximity & location
- + research support, cross cultural replications
- - findings cannot be applied to all cultures, low internal validity
- + research support, cross cultural replications
- everyone is willing to obey orders out of fear
- agentic state - personal responsibility of our behaviours
- autonomous state - acting upon free will
- legitimacy of authority - we are more likely to obey people who we see as socially higher in status
- agentic shift - shifting moral responsibility onto others within a socially higher status to ourselves
- - limited explanation, cannot explain all disobedience
- + research support, explains cultural differences
- autonomous state - acting upon free will
- authoritarian personality - a person people will obey easily due to status
- + research support
- - political bias, non useful predictor of obedience, limited explanation
- Milgram: electric shock experiment
- resistance to social influence
- locus of control - internal (our fault), external (not our fault)
- + research support
- - contradictory evidence, limited role of LOC
- minority influence
- consistency, commitment, flexibility
- + research support for consistency, research support for deeper processing
- - limited findings, artificial tasks
- consistency, commitment, flexibility
- locus of control - internal (our fault), external (not our fault)
- Obedience
- types of conformity: internalisation (public and private), identification (fear of rejection), compliance (public only)
- NSI: agree with opinion because of fear of rejection
- ISI: agree with opinion for social approval --> internalisation
- +research support
- - indiv differences, unclear differences
- +research support
- ISI: agree with opinion for social approval --> internalisation
- Zimabardo's study on social roles (Stanford Prison Experiment)
- social roles have a strong influence on our behaviours/attitudes
- + control with methodology, SPE replicated prison environment
- - lack of realism, exaggerated the power of roles
- + control with methodology, SPE replicated prison environment
- social roles have a strong influence on our behaviours/attitudes
- Asch's study: line study
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