Social Influence

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  • Created on: 22-05-18 09:08
Define internalisation.
Person genuinely accepts group norm; private & public change of opinion & behaviour; chance likely to be permanent; change persists without group members being present
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Define the agentic state.
Mental state; feel no personal repsonsibility for behaviour; believe to be acting for authority figure; free from demands of our conscience & ready to obey even distructive authority figure
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Define normative social influence.
NSI is about accepting group norms to gain social approval rather than be rejected or appear foolish; emotional rather than cognitive process; may be more pronounced in stressful situations where people have need for social support
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Give one strength of NSI.
Research support for NSI from Asch study where 37% of the time pps went along with the wrong answer; when asked why they said they were afraid of disapproval; when Asch repeated the study and pps wrote down the answer conformity fell to 12.5%.
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Give one weakness of NSI.
Individual differences; some people care less about being liked; nAffiliators care more about being liked and are therefore more likely to conform; not a good explanation for everybody
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Explain Locus of Control.
LOC refers to sense we have of what directs events in our lives; internals believe they are responsible themselves; external believe that it is mainly luch & outside forces
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Outline characteristics of a person with an internal LOC.
Believe events are largely controlled by themselves; more likely to resist pressure to conform, as they take responsiblity for their behaviour; more self-confident, achievement oriented, intelligent
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Outline characteristics of a person with external LOC.
Believe events happened without their control; due to luck; less self-confident
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Mental state; feel no personal repsonsibility for behaviour; believe to be acting for authority figure; free from demands of our conscience & ready to obey even distructive authority figure

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Define the agentic state.

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NSI is about accepting group norms to gain social approval rather than be rejected or appear foolish; emotional rather than cognitive process; may be more pronounced in stressful situations where people have need for social support

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Research support for NSI from Asch study where 37% of the time pps went along with the wrong answer; when asked why they said they were afraid of disapproval; when Asch repeated the study and pps wrote down the answer conformity fell to 12.5%.

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Card 5

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Individual differences; some people care less about being liked; nAffiliators care more about being liked and are therefore more likely to conform; not a good explanation for everybody

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