resistance to social influnce

• What is resistance to social influence?

  This means to resist social influence pressures like obedience and conformity
• What sort of variables are in social support?

  situational variables
• What is social support?

  social support involves being in the presence of others who go against the authority figure or the majority behaviours. Others resisting authority or the majority act as a model for others to follow them and resist social pressures.
• Which of Asch's variations show a lack of social support?

  unanimity
• What sort of variables are in locus of control?

  dispositional variables
• What is the locus of control?

  A persons perception of personal control over their own behaviour
• What is locus of control measured on?

  it is measured on a scale of high internal to high external
• What is a high internal locus of control?

  an individual who believes their life is determined by their own decisions
• Charcteristic of a high internal locus of control

  high level of personal control over their lives and behaviour
• What is a high external locus of control?

  an individual who believes their life is determined by fate, luck and external factors
• Characteristic of a high external locus of control

  belief that life is determined by environmental factors such as luck or fate
• Is autonomous state internal or external?


  internal
• is agentic state internal or external?

  external
• research support - social support

  P: strength - research support

  E: researcher gave 14-19-year-olds a buddy to help them stop smoking

  E: those who had a buddy were less likely to smoke compared to those without a buddy

  L: therefore social support can help someone resist social influence
• research support - dissenting ppts

  P: strength - research support for dissenting participants

  E: ppts told to produce evidence for an oil company

  E: 29 out of 33 groups disobeyed orders as they were able to discuss what they were told

  L: therefore dissenting peers can lead to disobedience
• research support - LOC

  P: strength - research support

  E: milgrams experiment repeated - 37% of internals did not continue and 23% of externals did not continue

  E: internals showed greater resistance to authority

  L: therefore validity of LOC increased
• contradictory research - LOC

  P: limitation - link between LOC and disobedience challenged

  E: evidence from 40 year period analyzed

  E: people became more resistant to authority but also became more external

  L: therefore LOC not valid explanation for disobedience