Social Influence KeyTerms 5.0 / 5 based on 4 ratings ? PsychologySocial InfluenceASAQA Created by: Alex TurckCreated on: 27-03-16 15:35 What is Agentic State? Individual carries out the orders of another person, acting as their agent with little personal responsibility. 1 of 29 What is Authoritarian personality? A person who has extreme respect for authority and is obedient to those who have power over them. 2 of 29 What is Autonomous state? Where individuals are seen as personally responsible for their actions. 3 of 29 What is Cognitive dissonance? Unpleasent feeling of anxiety created when simultaneously holding two contradictory ideas. 4 of 29 What is Compliance? Superficial type of conformity where people conform publicly by private disagree 5 of 29 What is a Confederate? Alternative term for stogges or pseudo-participants 6 of 29 What is Conformity? Changing what we do think or say in response to others 7 of 29 What is Dehumanisation? Degrading people by lessening their human qualities 8 of 29 What is Deindividuation? When a person moves into a group and as a result loses some individual identity. 9 of 29 What is a Dispostional attribution? Explanation of individual behaviour as a result caused by internal characteristics that reside within the individual 10 of 29 What is Identification? Where people change their beliefs (sometimes temporarily) to fit in with a group. 11 of 29 What are Individual variables? Personal characteristics that affect the degree to which individuals yield to group pressures. 12 of 29 What is Internalisation? Where people change their beliefs permanently 13 of 29 What is Ironic Deviance? Takes place when we believe that the behaviour of the majority is the result of unreasonable pressure from authority 14 of 29 What is Locus of Control? Extent to which individuals believe they can control events in their lives. 15 of 29 What is Majority influence? Alternative term for conformity 16 of 29 What is Milgram paradigm? Experimental procedure for measuring obedience rates 17 of 29 What is Minority Influence? Where an individual or small group influence attitudes and behaviour of a larger group 18 of 29 What is Morality? Decisions and behaviour based upon the perception of proper conduct 19 of 29 What is Obediance? Complying with the demands of an authority figure 20 of 29 What is Personality? Combination of characteristics that forms an individual's distinctive nature 21 of 29 What is Reactance? Occurs when a person feels that someone or somthing is taking away his or her choices or limiting the range of alternatives. 22 of 29 What is a Situational Variable? Features of an Environment that affect the degree to which individuals yield to group pressures 23 of 29 What is Social Change? The process by which attitudes, beliefs and norms of acceptable behaviour vary over time. 24 of 29 What are Social roles? The parts individuals play as part of a social group 25 of 29 What is social support? Perception of assistance and solidarity available from others 26 of 29 What is Status? The position of an individual within a hierarchical group 27 of 29 What is systematic processing? Analysis based on critical thinking 28 of 29 What is Unanimity? Complete agreement from a group of people about an issue or questions 29 of 29
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