a type of social influence that motivates individuals to reject established majority social norms
The minority always influence the majority
a force of keeping things the way they are, that resists social change
7. A majority influence is a force unwilling to keep things the way they are and want social change
False
True
8. What is social change?
The community are unwilling for any sort of change to happen
Occurs when a minority view challenges the majority view and is eventually accepted by the majority
Change in the community never occurs
9. The aim of Moscovici's study was to investigate the view that social influence occurs through compliance and through a change to previously help opinions on internalisation.
True
False
10. What were the findings to Moscovici's study?
no one agreed with the minority
pps agreed with minority on 8.42% of trials, 32% gave same answer as minority at least once
pps agreed with the minority on 21% of the trials
45.3% of pps agreed with the minority throughout all the tests
11. What were the ethics concerning Moscovici's study?
All of the above
The necessity to deceive pps about the purpose in order to investigate hypothesis
Psychological stress of the confederates not agreeing in the answers of the pps
The need to tell the pps the true aims of the experiment after it was performed
12. The aim of Asch's study was to investigate the extent to which individuals will conform to a majority who give consistently wrong answers.
True
False
13. What were the findings to this study?
25% gave the correct answers on all the trials
5% conformed to all 12 wrong answers
All of the above
75% of pps conformed to at least one wrong answer
On the 12 critical trials there was a 37% conformity rate to wrong answers.
14. What conclusions can be drawn from Asch's study?
The judgments of individuals are affected by majority opinions, even when majority are blatantly wrong
People are unlikely to conform to the majority if they feel they are wrong
People will only conform to the a majority if they agree with their own opinions
15. If the participants were able to give their answers in private, rather than calling them out in front of groups (regarding Asch's study) would this increase/decrease the effect on conformity?
