15 questions
What are the explanations of Conformity?
Internalisation
Normative social Influence
Identification
Informational social influence
What is meant by the term 'conformity'?
Wearing the same clothes as your friends.
Following orders from an authority figure.
A change in your opinion or behaviour as a result of pressure from others.
A temporary change in behaviour.
Kelman (1958) suggested there are how many ways in which people conform to the majority?
1
2
3
4
Select the types of conformity proposed by Kelman:
Unanimity
Internalisation
NSI
Compliance
Identification
Compliance is:
A superficial change that involves 'going along with others' in public but not privately.
We identify with the group, so want to go along with it, therefore change our behaviour.
We genuinely accept the group norms so privately and publicly go along with the majority.
Internalisation is:
A superficial change that involves 'going along with others' in public but not privately.
We identify with the group, so want to go along with it, therefore change our behaviour.
We genuinely accept the group views, behaviours etc.- so privately and publicly go along with the majority.
Identification is:
A superficial change that involves 'going along with others' in public but not privately.
We value something within the group, so want to go along with it, therefore change our behaviour publicly.
we genuinely accept the group norms so privately and publicly go along with the majority.,
Deutsch & Gerard developed a two-process theory to explain why people conform, they were:
Internalisation
Informational social influence
Individual differences
Normative social influence
According to 'informational social influence', people conform because:
They are embarrassed.
They want to be right.
They lack confidence.
They want to be liked.
According to 'normative social influence', people conform because:
They are embarrassed.
They want to be right.
They want to be liked.
They lack confidence.
It's Oliver's first day of school and he is keen to make a good impression. He pretends to be interested in the other students' conversation even though he really finds them boring.
Why is he doing this?
Informational social influence
Normative social influence
Because he's shy and doesn't want to stand out
Identification
Research by Lucas et al asked students to give answers to Maths problems that were either easy or more difficult, What did they find?
There was the same level of conformity across both easy and more difficult answers.
There was a lower level of conformity on the difficult maths problems compared to when they were easy
There was greater conformity to the incorrect answers when they were more difficult compared to the easier Maths problems.
They found no difference in conformity between the difficult and easy maths problems.
A social norm is ....
rules set out by a specific country
law of a spcific country
acceptable social behaviour for a social group.
values set by a spcecific social group.
Schultz et al (2008) found that hotels' guests behaviours were changed to using fewer bath towels by giving them a printed message encouraging them to save energy, what explanation does this demonstrate?
Informational social influence
Compliance
Normative social influence
Internalisation
Which type of conformity is the deepest?
Internalisation
Identification
Compliance
None