Yielding to group pressure (also known as majority influence)
Conformity
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Publicly, but not privately, going along with majority to gain approval
Compliance
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Public and private acceptance of majority influence in order to gain group acceptance
Identification
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Public and private acceptance of majority influence, through adoption of the majority group's belief system
Internalisation
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A motivational force to look to others for guidance in order to be correct
Informational Social Influence
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A motivational force to be liked and accepted
Normative Social Influence
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An unpleasant feeling of anxiety created by simultaneously holding 2 contradictory ideas
Cognitive Dissonance
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Also known as pseudo-participants and stooges. Individuals who pretend to be participants of researchers in research studies, but who are actually playing a part
Confederates
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Features of an environment that affect the degree to which individuals yield to group pressures
Situational Variables
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Personal characteristics that affect the degree to which individuals yield to group pressures
Individual Variables
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The parts individuals may play as members of a social group, which meet the expectations
Social Roles
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A state in which individuals have lower self-awareness and a weaker sense of personal responsibility for their actions. This may result from the relative anonymity of being part of a crowd.
De-Individuation
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Degrading people by lessening of their human qualities
Dehumanisation
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Complying with the demands of an authority figure
Obedience
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Experimental procedure devised by Stanley Milgram for measuring obedience rates
Milgram Paradigm
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A bias in psychological research in which a male perspective is over-emphasised at the expense of a female one
Androcentrism
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Opposite side of the agentic state, where individuals are seen as personally responsible for their actions
Autonomous State
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The way in which an individual may obey an order, perhaps to do something that they see as "wrong", because the individual hands over the responsibility for the outcome of the action to the authority figure. They're seen as their agent in their mind.
Agentic State
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The degree to which individuals are seen as justified in having power over others.
Legitimacy of Authority
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The perception of behaviour as caused by internal characteristics
Dispositional Explanation
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Description of a person who holds rigid beliefs, is intolerant of ambiguity, submissive to authority and hostile to those of a lower status or members of an out-group
Authoritarian Personality
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The ways in which individuals attempt to withstand perceived attempts to threaten freedom of choice
Resistance to Social Influence
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The perception of assistance and solidarity available from others
Social Support
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The extent to which individuals believe they can control event in their lives
Locus of Control
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Rebellious anger produced by attempts to restrict freedom of choice
Reactance
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The belief that other people's behaviour occurs because they have been told to do it lowers their informational influence
Ironic Deviance
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An individual's social position within a hierarchical group
Status
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Decisions and behaviours based upon the perception of proper conduct
Morality
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The combination of characteristics that forms an individual's distinctive nature
Personality
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A type of influence that motivates individuals to reject established majority group norms
Minority Influence
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The process by which society changes beliefs, attitudes and behaviour to create new social norms
Social Change
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Publicly, but not privately, going along with majority to gain approval
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Compliance
Card 3
Front
Public and private acceptance of majority influence in order to gain group acceptance
Back
Card 4
Front
Public and private acceptance of majority influence, through adoption of the majority group's belief system
Back
Card 5
Front
A motivational force to look to others for guidance in order to be correct
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