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Conformity
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- 1What is normative social influence?The result of wanting to be liked and accepted as part of the group by following its norms.
- 2Evaluate normative social influence as an explanation of conformity.Bullying: Garandeau & Cillessen -children with low interpersonal relations manipulated by a skillful bully, victimisation of other child provides common goal.
- 3What is informational social influence?The result of wanting to be right, i.e. looking to others, as experts, for the right answer and conforming to their opinion.
- 4Evaluate informational social influence as an explanation of conformity.Political Opinion: Fein et al - judgments for US candidate performance influenced by crowd reactions.
Development of Social Stereotypes: Wittenbrink & Henley - exposure to negative info about African Americans more likely to shape stereotypes as majority view.
Mass Psychogenic Illness: Jones et al - illness symptoms can spread between members of a cohesive group even though there is no obvious physical cause. - 5What are the types of conformity? And explain them.Compliance - no change in underlying attitude, only public behaviour.
Internalisation - acceptance of group's views publicly and privately.
Identification - compliance and internalisation to establish a relationship with someone. - 6What is the AMRC of Asch?A - To investigate conformity due to majority influence.
M - 'Test of vision'. Series of lines. 123 male American undergrads. 1 real ppt. Real answered last/second to last. 12/18 trials confederates incorrect.
R - For the 12 critical trials, 36.8% of ppts were also incorrect. 25% of ppts never conformed. Without confederates ppts got it right 99% of the time.
C - People tend to conform due to majority influence. - 7What were the variations to Asch's study, and their effects on conformity?Difficulty of task - if task more difficult,
conformity increased.
Size of majority - conformity increases with up to 3 confeds.
Unanimity - if not unanimous decision, conformity decreases.
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