yielding to group pressure, occurs when an individuaks behaviours and beliefs are influenced by a larger group of people.
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what is compliance?
individuals adjust their behaviours and opinions to those of a group to be accepted or to avoid disapproval.
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what is identification?
occurs when individuals adjust their behaviour to those of a group, because membership of that group is seen as desirable.
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what is internalisation?
occurs when individuals genuinely adjust their behaviour and opinions to those of a group.
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what is ISI?
informational social influenc, a motiivational force to look to others for guidance in order to be correct.
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what is NSI?
normative social influence, a motivational force to be liked and accepted by a group.
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what is cognitive dissonance?
an unpleasant feeling of anxiety created by simultaneously holding two contradictory ideas.
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what is a stooge?
individuals who know they onjectives of an experiment but pretend to be a past of it
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what is a situational variable?
features of an environment that affect the degree to which individuals yield to group pressure
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what is an individual variable?
personal characteristics that affect the degree to which individuals yield to group pressure
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what is a social role?
the parts individuals play as members of a social group, which meet the expectations of that situation
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what is de-individuation?
a state in which individuals have lower self-awareness and a weaker sense of personal responsibility for their actions
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what is dehumanisation?
degrading people by lessening them of their human qualities
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what is obedience?
complying with the demands of an authority figure
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what is a milgram paradigm?
an experimental procedure e rates devised by stanley milgram for measuring obedienc
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what is the autonomous state?
opposite side of the agentic state, where individuals are seen as personally responsible for their actions
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what is the agentic state?
the way in which an individual may obey an order. the individual sees themselves as acting as an agent for the authority figure and therefore does not feel repsonsible
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what is the legitimacy of authority?
the degree to which individuals are seen as justified in having powers over others.
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what is a dispositional explanation?
the perception of behaviour as caused by internal characteristics of individuals
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what is an authoritarian personality?
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.
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what is resistance to social influence?
the ways in which individuals attempt to withstand percieved attempts to threaten freedom of choice.
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what is social support?
the perception of assistance and solidarity available from others
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what is a locus of control?
the extent to which individuals believe that they can control events in their lives
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what is the minority influence?
a type of social influence that motivates individuals to reject established majority group norms.
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what is a social change ?
the process by which society changes beliefs, attitudes and behaviour to create new social norms
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what is compliance?
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individuals adjust their behaviours and opinions to those of a group to be accepted or to avoid disapproval.
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