AQA PSYCH

• Resistance to social Influence

  • Social support
  • Locus of control
• Social support- refers to those who model resistance to social influence to help others do the same, reducing pressures to conform or obey
• Resisiting obedience- Milgrams variation- joined by disobedient confederate- acted as a model - supports people to disobey
• +reseach to support social support

  (alberchet)- teen fresh start USA- help pregnant teens resist pressure to smoke- those who had social support from a slighly older buddy - resisted social influence
• Locus of control- refers to the extent which individuals believe that they have control over events in their lives - Rotter proposed a continuum
• Internals- mostly responsible for what happens to them
• Externals- mainly a matter of luck/outside forces