SI KEYTERMS

• Conformity is a change in behaviour or beliefs of following due to real or imagined pressure from a person or a group
• Internal validity is about the researcher measuring what was intended in a study - includes control of variable to show only the independent variable affected the dependent variable
• External validity is how well we can generalise findings to other people, places and times
• Gender + Culture Bias : Tendency of research favouring or valuing a gender / culture more than others ( eg individualist vs collectivist countries )
• Dispositional factors are individual / personal characteristics that affect how we behave
• Situational variables are the features of the immediate physical and social environment which influence behaviour ( proximity , location and uniform )
• Proximity is the physical closeness/distance of an authority figure to the person they are giving the order to
• Do you act independently with the feeling of responsibility in the agentic or autonomous state?

  Autonomous
• Are you aware of the consequences of your actions in the autonomous or agentic state?

  Autonomous
• The agentic state is a mental state where you feel no responsibility for actions as you act as an agent for authority
• Do we feel ' high anxiety ' in the agentic state?

  Yes
• Gradual commitment is when people who initially obey small tasks find it harder to not obey larger ones
• Is the agentic shift ' autonomous to agentic ' or ' agentic to autonomous'?

  autonomous to agentic
• Binding factors are aspects of a situation that makes a person ignore the damaging effects on their behaviour
• Binding factors help to reduce moral what?

  Strain
• Legitimacy of authority is when we are more likely to obey people perceive to have power over us which is justified by the position on the social hierarchy
• Does someone with an authoritarian personality see inferiors as weak or strong?

  Weak
• The F-Scale is a test of tendencies towards fascism, to assess the authoritarian personality
• Resistance is when someone withstands social pressure to conform or obey - influenced by both situational and dispositional factors
• Social support is when a dissenter resists the group pressure to conform or obey so models that resistance is possible
• Is the idea that we are responsible for what happens to us internal or external locus of control?

  Internal
• Is the idea that outside forces or luck is responsible for what happens to us internal or external locus of control?

  External
• Is synchronic or diachronic consistency when the minority just have the same beliefs?

  Synchronic
• Is synchronic or diachronic consistency when the minority have thew same beliefs over a period of time?

  Diachronic
• The what principle is the extreme form of commitment to show passion for a cause?

  Augementation
• Commitment is to show dedication and passion to the cause
• Flexibility is the ability to adapt your point of view and to be prepared to accept valid arguments to show you do not have a rigid / fixed mindset
• The snowball effect is where the minority has convinced so much of the majority , there is a faster rate of conversion
• Deeper processing is when you process information in a more detailed way which created long term retention easier