Social Influence Keywords 5.0 / 5 based on 4 ratings ? PsychologyConformityA2/A-levelAQA Created by: [email protected]Created on: 26-04-17 11:04 Agentic state Individual carries out the orders of another person, acting as their agent with little personal responsibility 1 of 27 Authoritarian personality A person who has extreme respect for authority and is obedient to those who have power over them 2 of 27 Autonomous state Where individuals are seen as personally responsible for their actions 3 of 27 Cognitive dissonance Unpleasant feeling of anxiety created when simultaneously holding two contradictory ideas 4 of 27 Compliance Superficial type of conformity where people conform publicly by privately disagree 5 of 27 Confederates Alternative term for stooges or pseudo-participants 6 of 27 Conformity Changing what we do think or say in response to others 7 of 27 Dehumanisation Degrading people by lessening their human qualities 8 of 27 Deindividuation When a person moves into a group and as a result loses some individual identity 9 of 27 Dispositional attribution Explanation of individual behavior as a result caused by internal characteristics that reside within the individual 10 of 27 Identification Where people change their beliefs (sometimes temporarily) to fit in with a group 11 of 27 Individual variables Personal characteristics that affect the degree to which individuals yield to group pressures 12 of 27 Internalisation Where people change their beliefs permanently 13 of 27 Identification Where people change their beliefs (sometimes temporarily) to fit in with a group 14 of 27 Individual variables Personal characteristics that affect the degree to which individuals yield to group pressures 15 of 27 Internalisation Where people change their beliefs permanently 16 of 27 Ironic deviance Takes place when we believe that the behaviour of the majority is the result of unreasonable pressure from authority 17 of 27 Locus of control Extent to which individuals believe they can control events in their lives 18 of 27 Majority influence Alternative term for conformity 19 of 27 Minority Influence Where a individual or small group influence attitudes and behaviour of a larger group 20 of 27 Obedience Complying with the demands of an authority figure 21 of 27 Situational variables Features of an environment that affect the degree to which individuals yield to group pressures 22 of 27 Social change The process by which attitudes, beliefs and norms of acceptable behaviour vary over time 23 of 27 Social roles The parts individuals play as part of a social group 24 of 27 Social support Perception of assistance and solidarity available from others 25 of 27 Systematic processing Analysis based on critical thinking 26 of 27 Unanimity Complete agreement from a group of people about an issue or question 27 of 27
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