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AQA A Level Psychology Social InfluenceExam Question & Answers 2025
State the definition of conformity - Correct Answers ✅✅An
individual is said to be conforming if they choose a course of action that
is favoured by the majority of the group members.
State and explain the three types of conformity - Correct Answers
✅✅Compliance - Individuals follow what the group is doing in order
to be accepted or to fit in, even if there personal views may differ to the
one they are portraying. This will not chance their underlying attitude
towards something. (Asch)
Internalisation - This involves both public and private attitudes and is
where the individual may believe that the groups view, after close
inspection, is correct and theirs is wrong. This leads them to changing
their public and private view towards something in order to be correct.
This is the deepest level of conformity and becomes a permanent
attitude. (Sherif's Autokinetic)
Identification - The individuals attitudes both private and publicly will
change but in this case only for a temporary amount of time and also is
in order to fit in and be liked, essentially it is a mix of compliance and
internalisation. (Zimbardo)
There are two explanations for conformity, outline and explain them -
Correct Answers ✅✅Normative Social Influence - This is where
,AQA A Level Psychology Social Influence
Exam Question & Answers 2025
people go along with a majority in order to feel that they fit in and not
be ridiculed for having a different opinion to everyone else.
Informational Social Influence - Occurs when an individual accepts
information from the majority as they see them as experts or someone
with more understanding of a particular subject. This is done in order to
be correct.
Outline and evaluate a study into informational social influence -
Correct Answers ✅✅Jenness setup an ambiguous situation
where participants were asked individually to estimate how many
beans were in a glass bottle they were shown. This was recorded and
participants were then put in a room with a group of people and asked
as a group to come to an estimate. Again they were asked individually if
they would like to change their original estimate, and nearly all of them
decided they would like to change. This shows that most of them went
through informational social influence where they conformed with a
group in order to be correct.
:) - Unlike other research into conformity there is no deceiving so it is
ethically sound
:( - Doesn't give us any insight into non ambiguous situations where
conformity occurs
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Exam Question & Answers 2025
Outline and evaluate a study into Normative social influence - Correct
Answers ✅✅Asch conducted a lab experiment where 50 male
students where individually the participants were put in a room with 7
confederates and took part in a 'vision test'. The confederates were
told before hand to answer wrongly for every task. They were shown a
line and then followed 3 lines on a separate card, named A, B and C.
They had to match which from A, B and C matched with the original line
they were shown. Asch measure the times that participants conformed
with the majority and found that around 1/3rd conformed. Over the 12
critical trials 75% conformed at least once, compared to less than 1% in
the control group. When interviewed after and asked why they
conformed they stated that they wanted to fit in and not be ridiculed
by the group.
:( - Asch used a biased sample of only males, of which all were students,
meaning it lacks population validity and in turn the findings into
normative social influence cant be easily generalised to the population
:( - Asch used a task where the participants had to judge line lengths
but realistically when do we naturally come across a situation like this.
This means that the study lacks ecological validity and cannot be
generalised to other situations
State and explain each factor that affects levels of conformity - Correct
Answers ✅✅Asch conducted his research with many different
variations and found which affected conformity.
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