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Conformity - ANSWER when the individual changes attitude or behaviour to yield to
group pressure
Compliance - ANSWER when a person publicly changes his or her behaviour but not his
or her private beliefs. Also, compliance is temporary change
Identification - ANSWER when there is a temporary change both in public behaviour and
private beliefs of a person
Internalisation- ANSWER when an individual changes their behaviour publicly and also
their private beliefs, this is a long term change
normative social influence- ANSWER when a person conforms to be accepted and to
feel that they belong to the group, here a person conforms because it is socially
rewarding or to avoid social rejection
informational social influence - ANSWER when a person conforms to gain knowledge, or
because they believe that someone else is 'right'
individual differences - ANSWER plays a role in explaining social influence, which means
that the processes will not affect everyone's behaviour in the same way
Jenness (1932) - aim - ANSWER -examine whether individuals will change their opinion
in an ambiguous situation in response to a group discussion
Jenness (1932) - Method and results - ANSWER ambiguous situation, glass bottle filled
with 811 beans
, - 26 students individually estimate amount of beans
- participants divided into groups of three and provide group answer
- participants then given opportunity to then give their individual answers again to see if
they changed
Jenness (1932) - ANSWER almost all participants changed their original answer
- men students changed their answers by 256 beans
female students altered their answer by 382 beans
Asch 1951 conformity research - ANSWER - 123 American male college students
judge a line length after hearing confederates give incorrect answers
12 critical trials - 36.8% conformed
people conform to group even when they know the answer is wrong
Asch - 1951 results - ANSWER -real participants conformed to the incorrect answers on
32% of the critical trials
-74% conformed to at least 1 critical trial
-26% never conformed
- during a control group, with one real participants without confederates, less than 1%
gave the incorrect answer
Evaluating Asch research 1951 - ANSWER -unethical - deliberately deceived the
participants
-background, gender, male, American, white, young
-inconsequential task
- could be led by the researchers tone of voice
- low levels of ecological validity
artificial task - does not reflect conformity in everyday life which means the task lacks
mundane realism
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