Conformity and Obedience
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What is the definition of conformity?
A type of social influence involving a chnage in belief and/or behaviour as a result of real or imagined pressure from a group
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What are the two explanations for conformity?
Nomative social influence and informational social influence
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What is Nomative social influence?
This occurs when an individual conforms because they want to be liked and accepted by the group. They do not neccessarily agree with the group view but do not want to be left out or feel abnormal, so they go along with the group norms.
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What is informational social influence?
Occurs when an indiidual conforms because they want to be right. In situations where they are unsure they look to other group members for guidance.
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What are the three types of conformity?
Compliance, internalisation and identification
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What is compliance?
Occurs when an individual changes his orher behaviour to fitin with the group, but their private opinion does not change. Shallowest level of conformity because there is no real change in belief occurs; want to be accpeted
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What is internalisation?
occurs when an individual changes both their public and private opinion as a result of the group influence. Deepest level of confomity they accept the group view as their own. leads to a permanent change in opinion.
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What is identification?
occurs when an indvidual changes their behaviour and/or opinion because they like and admire the members and want to become like them. may chnage both public and private opinion but it is unlikely to last after they leave the group.
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What variables affect conformity ad invetsigated by Asch?
Group size, unanimity and task difficulty
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identify one of the 'prods' used in Milgram's research?
"It is absolutly essential that you continue"
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How did milgram recruit participants?
Put an add out in a newspaper. Volunteer sampling
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Why might participants have felt they did not have the full right o withdraw?
Even when the participants wanted to withdraw the researcher pushed him to carry on
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What aspect of the study were the participants deceived about?
They though they were shocking people but the leaner was not really being shocked. They were also deceived about the aim and confederates
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What percentage of participants continued to give shocks up to 300 volts?
100%
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What percentage continued to give shocks up to the maximum of 450 volts?
65%
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What signs were there that the participants were distressed?
14 out of 40 particpants had a nervous laugh
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What are the explanations for obediance?
Legitimate authority and the agenic state
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what is legitimate authority?
This means thatwe accept that some people have the right to tell us what to do because of their position in the social hierarchy.
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Why are you more likely to obey a comand for someone in a position of legitimate authority?
because we trust their judgement and because we want to avoid the concequences of disobeying
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According to milgram what two states can a person be in?
the autonomous state and the agentic state
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What is the autonomous state?
when an individual feels that they are fully in control of their own actions, and is free to behave according to their own principles
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what is the agentic state?
occurs when an individual believes they are simply an agent acting for someone in a psoition of legitimate authority
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What is the shift from the autonomou state to the agentic state called?
agentic shift
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What is a authoritarian personality?
a collection of traits/characteristics that lead a person to be highly obedient to authority figures
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What are the characteristics of an authoritrian personality?
extreme respect to authority and are submissive to it. they are likely to show contempt for people they perceive as having inferior social status. Thye believe that society needs strong and powerful leaders to enforce traditional values.
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How is the authoritarian perosnality measured?
the f-scale
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What causes the authoritarian personalit?
adorno et al: formed in childhood. it could be due to, harsh parenting, parenting style (high standards) and the love for their child
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what is internal locus of control?
the belief that you make things happen
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what is external locus of control?
Things happen to you
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