Social Influence: Conformity and Obedience notes
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- Types and explanations of conformity461
- Asch's conformity studies202
- Conformity to social roles: Zimbardo's prison study74
- Obedience studies and situational variables147
- Obedience to authority and its explanations158
- Resistance to social influence108
- Minority influence79
- Social influence and social change58
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16 Markers for Social Influence Describe and evaluate ISI and NSI as explanations for conformity Informational social influence is when we agree with the opinion of the majority because we believe it is correct, and we accept it because we want to b...
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Moscovici Study (69) Procedure. Moscovici ran a lab experiment into minority influence using 192 women in groups of 6 at a time. They judged the colour of 36 slides, all blue of various shades.
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CONFORMITY EXPERIMENT (Solomon Asch, 1951) CONFORMITY EXPERIMENT (Solomon Asch, 1951) AIM: to discover whether group size and unanimity influences pressure to conform. HYPOTHESIS: it was hypothesised that an individual would modify their response to a v...
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Outline research into conformity (6 marks) Outline Research into Conformity (6 marks)Asch conducted a study to investigate the effects of majority influence on conformity.He asked 123 male volunteers to take part in a 'vision' test. The real purpose of the exp...
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Social Influence- Researchers (AQA A Level Psychology) The following table is comprised of the Social Influence topics (types/explanations of conformity, conformity to social roles, obedience, minority influence, and social change), researchers who investigated that area,...
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99 - People think Others are More Easily Influenced Than They are Themselves 99 - People think Others are More Easily Influenced Than They are Themselves Main Idea - People believe others are more influenced than they are themselves because the influence happening to them is happen...
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AS Psychology Social Influence Social influenceConformity (majority influence)-a type of social influence, a change in a person's behaviour or opinions due to real or imagined pressure to adhere to existing social norms.Conforming ...
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Social Influence 16 Markers Describe and evaluate ISI and NSI as explanations for conformity Informational social influence is when we agree with the opinion of the majority because we believe it is correct, and we accept it because we want to b...
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CHAPTER 2: WHY DO GOOD PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS THE MAIN POINT OF THIS SECTION: The first section notes that WW2 casts a large shadow over the last half-century of social psychology. Much of social psychology has been concer...
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ASCH CONFORMITY STUDY - created from Mind Map Original Study Variation Studies Aims
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Asch (1951) Conformity Study A: Seeing whether a majority can influence a minority even when the situation is unambiguous and the correct answer is obvious.P: Asch conducted a lab experiment in which he set up a condition where 7 people looked at...
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Milgram: Electric Shock Study Milgram's Electric Shock Study.Procedure:40 menLeaner (Confederate)Teacher (Participant)Experimenter (Confederate)450 volts maxTeacher gives leaner 'shock' for every incorrect answerIf teacher refuses they are prompte...
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Conformity What is social influence?Social influence refers to the idea that our thoughts, feelings, actions, beliefs and perceptions are influenced by social groups and social interactions. Social influence can take many forms ...
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Social influence Compliance Conformity: Compliance: Publicly, but not privately going along with majority influence to gain approval/avoid ridicule. Weak/temporary and only shown in presence of group. Conformity: results from exposure...
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Asch's Paradigm Study Asch's Paradigm - Pilot Study36 participants participated individually in 20 slightly different versions of the task. Only 3 mistakes were made. The error rate 0.47%. This shows the task was unambiguous and the absenc...
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3 Key Studies - created from Mind Map 1) Asch's Study 2) Milgram's Study 3) Zimbardo's Study
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Psychology - Paper 1 Conformity Herbert Kelman: Internalisation: a person may agree in public with a group of people but the person actually privately disagrees with the group’s viewpoint or behaviour. Identification: publicly changing be...
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Chapter 7 Influence - created from Mind Map What paths lead to persuasion? What are the elements of persuasion? Among the ingredients of persuasion explored by social psychologists are these four: (1) the communicator, (2) the message, (3) how the message is co...
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Chapter 4 Conformity: a change in behavior/opinions because of REAL or IMAGINED pressure from another person/group. not always on purpose Chameleon effect: when people talk to each other, they often mirror one another's nonverb...
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Explanations for Resistance to Social Influence Independent behaviour is a term that psychologists use to describe behaviour that seems not to be influenced by other people. This happens when a person resists the pressures to conform or obey. Social Support In one ...
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Social Change and Minority Influence Social Change and Minority Influence Social Change = when society adopts a new belief or way of behaving which then becomes widely accepted as the normMinority Influence = a form of social influence where people rejec...
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Social Psychology SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY CONFORMITYThe tendency to change your behaviour and attitudes due to influence of others or social pressure. This pressure can be real or imagined. Dual-process dependency model Normative Social Infl...
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ROBBER’S CAVE EXPERIMENT (Sherif, 1956) ROBBER’S CAVE EXPERIMENT (Sherif, 1956) AIM: to reduce prejudice through intergroup contact PARTICIPANT INFORMATION: 22 white, middle class, protestant boys ages 11 – 12, with no records of school, psychological ...
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social influence Types of conformityInternalisation- Where a person takes on the groups beliefs both Publicly, privately and permanently., As they have genuinely have accepted the groups norms.Identification- the group takes on the at...
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Obedience - Dispositional Explanations Adorno - Authoritarian Personality: Adorno et al wanted to investigate the causes of the obedient personality Adorno studied 2000 middle class white Americans and their unconscious attitudes towards other racial group...
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Deindividuation DEINDIVIDUATION THEORY Le Bon (1895) Claimed that in a crowd the combination of anonymity, suggestibility and contagion mean that a 'collective mind' takes possession of the individual. The individual loses...
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Conformity to Social Roles Social roles are the part that people play as members of a social group - such as student, teacher, policeman, etc. There is considerable pressure to conform to the expectations of a social role. Conforming to a socia...
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STANDFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT (Philip Zimbardo, 1971) STANDFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT Philip Zimbardo, 1971 AIM: To find out how role expectations influence a person’s behaviour within a group, especially when this role can have high or low power and status. (Or, to f...
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Types of Conformity - created from Mind Map Types of conformity (Kelmen 1958) Explanations for conformity. Strengths
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Conformity Types of Conformity: Compliance - conforming simply because of expectations and with no convictions e.g. a supporter finds themselves in with the wrong fans so starts supporting the wrong team Identification - conform...
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Obedience - Social Psychological Factors Agentic State:Agentic state is a mental state where we feel no personal responsibility for our behaviour because we believe ourselves to be acting for an authority figure i.e. as their agent. This frees us from the de...
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - Milgram the MILGRAM AIM: The aim of the study was to investigate what level of obedience would be shown when subjects where told by an authority figure to administer electric shocks to another person. METHOD: A Lab setting us...
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Psychology Social Influence ConformityThis is the process of yielding to majority influence. A change in the behaviour or belief as a result or real or imagined group pressure. There are three types; Compliance which is superfic...
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Social Psychology Practical Aim: To find out whether people are obedient because they want to be (autonomous state) or feel they have to (agentic state).http://www.psychteacher.co.uk/social-influence/obedience-explanations.html Hypothesis: I pre...
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Explanations for Obedience The Agentic State Agency theory says that people will obey an authority when they believe that the authority will take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. This is supported by some aspects of Milgram...
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Conformity - created from Mind Map Process of yielding to group pressure. (Tendency to change behaviour or attitude in response to real or imagined group pressure.) Types Explanations
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Asch's research Describe Asch's research into conformityWhat happened?Solomon Asch tested conformity by showing two cards at the same time to participants who were american male undergraduate students. The left hand card was showing ...
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Milgram's Research - created from Mind Map Outline/Findings Strengths and weaknesses Aim
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L8 Social Psychology - Obedience Obeience- Conformity is one way that people influence us. - Another way is obedience, when people change their behaviour because someone tells them to. - Obedience can lead to people violating their own prin...
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OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY (Stanley Milgram, 1963) OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITYStanley Milgram, 1963 AIM: the aim of the experiment was to find out whether individuals would obey an authority figure who was instructing them to inflict pain on another person. HYPOTHESIS...
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