Conformity
True or False: conformity can happen even if pressure is imagined.
True
In social resistance, "allies" help us become more confident to think and act freely.
This is called social support.
When the minority opinion becomes the majority opinion
What is the Snowball Effect?
This experiment on obedience to authority relied on shocking confederates.
What is Milgram's experiment?
What is Stanford University?
Getting the newest iPhone to look cool like all the other students is an example of ___ social influence.
What is normative social influence?
The extent to which individuals believe they can control the events in their lives.
When convincing a majority, the minority influence might come off too strong or rigid about their beliefs. They need ___ to soften their approach.
What is flexibility?
This experiment showed how people conform to fit in with a group, even knowing they are wrong.
What is the Asch line test?
What is harsh parenting?
You publicly, but not privately, going along with the majority influence’s beliefs or behaviors to gain social approval.
What is compliance?
A person believing they failed their driver's test because their examiner is a jerk is an example of __.
What is External Locus of Control?
Holding the same beliefs over a long period of time.
What is diachronic consistency?
This experiment on social roles and conformity showed the power of the situation on influencing behavior.
What is Zimbardo's Prison Experiment?
Milgram did his experiment at his university which is included as one of his variations.
What is Yale University?
There are three variables which affect conformity: group size, unanimity and ____.
What is talk difficulty?
"I passed my GCSEs because I studied so much this weekend!" is an example of ___.
What is Internal Locus of Control.
Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức's self-immolation is an example of this technique for convincing a majority.
What is commitment?
In this variation of a famous experiment, a confederate who looked professional was changed with a confederate who looked like an average person to give orders.
What is a Variation of Milgram's experiment?
When you permanently adopt a new behavior or attitude because you genuinely believe in it.
What is internalisation?
What is informational social influence?
True or False: we will break free from conformity if the dissenter is shown to obviously be less skilled or intelligent.
True.
Martin Luther King advocating to end racial discrimination along with his peers despite dealing with violence shows ___ consistency.
What is synchronic consistency?
This experiment was used to test out the strength of consistency in minority influence.
What is Moscovici's Blue-Green Slide study?
When people displace their anger onto 'weaker' targets instead of the original target.
What is scapegoating?