Conformity

Cards (6)

  • Kelman (1958)

    Compliance - agree with group externally, temporary
    Identification - behaviour changes with group
    Internalisation - personal opinions genuinely change
  • Informational Social Influence

    Look to majority for guidance as we want to be correct, leading to internalisation
  • Normative Social Influence

    Wants to appear normal, goes with the crowd, leads to compliance
  • (+) A03: Asch (1951)

    Unambiguous line length test showed 32% gave incorrect answers, answered wrong to avoid rejection, supporting NSI
  • (+) A03: Jenness (1932)

    Beans in a jar experiment, asked to give a guess individually, then discuss their guesses, then make a second guess; second answer was closer to group decision, supporting ISI (Women conformed more)
  • (-) A03: Locus of Control
    People are able to resist conformity due to their locus of control