conformity

• what are three types of social influence?

  conformity, obedience, compliance
• what is obedience?

  involves giving into commands from authority
• what is compliance?

  involves going along with explicit requests made by others
• what is conformity?

  involves changing attitudes or behaviour in response to pressure from others
• what are three groups in society?

  incidental group

  membership group

  identity reference group
• what is the incidental group?

  groups where there is minimal commitment to each other and involvement with group members
• what is the membership group?

  a group someone is a member of
• what is the identity-reference group?

  where belonging to a group acts as a reference frame of social identity
• what are the three types of conformity?

  Compliance, identification, and internalization.
• what happens when someone is compliant?

  they change public behaviours but not private beliefs
• what happens during identification (conformity)?

  conforming publicly and privately, though often temporary
• what happens during internalisation (conformity)?

  when someone changes public AND private behaviour
• what are two explanations for conformity?

  normative social influence

  informational social influence
• what does normative social influence mean?

  conforming to be accepted and belong to a group because it is socially rewarding/ avoid social punishment.
• what does informational social influence mean?

  Conforming to others' behavior because they believe they have accurate information.
• what are 9 reasons conforming is more likely?

  group size

  gender

  unanimity

  cohesion

  status

  public response

  deindividuation

  personality

  culture
• do people conform more in public (for response)

  yes
• does cohesiveness (power) over a group affect conformity

  yes
• do lower status people have more influence over a group?

  no
• does a group with a unanimous approach increase conformity

  yes
• is conformity likely when deindividuation occurs

  yes
• what is deindividuation

  loss of personal identity
• what is another name for personality factors?

  dispositional factors
• what type of personality is more likely to conform?

  Adnorno's authoritarian personality
• which gender is more likely to conform?

  women
• is conformity more likely in countries with higher collectivism or individualism


  collectivism