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Resistance to social influence: what is social support? |
The perception that an individual has assistance available from other people, and that they are part of this social network. |
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What does breaking the unanimity of the group decrease conformity? |
It makes people question their own view. |
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Research has found people are more willing to take on authority if they have an ally. |
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What happened in Milgrams study when there were 2 conderetaes who acted as particpants of the study with the real particpant and both objected to giving shocks ? |
The obediance rate dropped to a very small 10% |
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What arecresearch confederates? |
People who are part of the experiment and are aware if the true reason for the study whilst the parivpant thonks they're a real particpant |
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What is the locus of control? |
People differ in their beliefs about whether the outcomes of their actions are dependant on what they do (internal locus of control) or what other people do. (External locus of control ) |
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Internal locus of control means? |
We can control what happens in our lives |
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External locus of control means? |
What happens to them is outside their control and there is little a person can do about it. |
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Are people who ate high internals more likely to obey? |
No, they actively seek information and rely less on the information of others, they're less vulnerabke to social influence |
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High internals are more likely to be leaders rather than follow others |
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Internals are better able to resist against persuation and coercion. |
A study found internals have less info away during interrogation |
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Resistance to social influence evaluation: link between normative influence and locus of control |
Spector found that people with a high external locus of control were more likely to give on to normative influence |
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Evaluation: people are more external than they used to be. |
Twenge found young Americans increasingly believed their fate was more determined by luck and other factors rather than their own actions. |
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REAL LIFE APPLICATION: the Rosenstrasse protest in Nazi Germany. |
A group of German women opposed the gustapo in rounding up 2000 Jewish men. They made this happen dispute threays of being gunned down. This supports Monogram as the presence of peers may have given the women courage. All defied authority. |
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Evaluation: research support for locus of control |
Avtgis found people with high external locus of control were more easily persuaded, more easily influenced and more conforming than those with high internal levels of control. |
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Minority influence: what is minority influence? |
A form.if social influence where members of the majority group change their beliefs or behaviours as a result of theirvexposure to a persuasive minority |
