Exploring Social Psychology 8th Edition By David Myers - Test Bank
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SOCIAL PSYC - Chapters 1 & 4
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CONFORMITY
What is Conformity?
-north American & European countries give conformity negatve abe s
-however, in japan going a ong with others is seen as a sign of maturity and se f-contro
-we choose abe s to suit our va ues and judgement
-conformity is not just actng as other peop e act; it is a so being afected by how they act
-it is a change in behaviour or be ief according to others
-3 types of conformity:
1. Comp iance: outward conformity
2. Obedience: comp iance to an exp icit command
3. Acceptance: inward conformity
C assic Conformity and Obedience Studies:
-Sherif’s Study of Norm Formaton seeing a ight move
-then they had a confederate inflate the estmate of how far the ight moved. Then they ef,
and another person was brought in. the person that heard the confederate inflated the estmate
as we and it kept going to that these peop e were unwitng conspirators in a perpetuatng a
cu tura fraud
-chameleon efect: being around peop e who mimic our body anguage can make us ike them
better
-suggestbi ity can a so occur on arge sca es ie. UFO’s
-Asch’s Studies of Group Pressure ine experiment
-on y 37% of peop e conformed meaning that 63% didn’t
-however, many critciied his experiment saying it has “experimenta rea ism” but not
“mundane rea ism”
-Mi gram’s Obedience Studies e ectric shock
-65% went a the way up to 450 vo ts
-ethics: many fee that the study was unethica and cou d have a tered the person’s se f concept
as we , he a so did not debrief his partcipants as we as he shou d have
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