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What is social support as an explanation of resistance to social influence? |
Seeing others resist social influence reduces pressure to obey or conform,increasing the individual's confidence. |
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Why does social support help individuals resist social influence? |
Either providing a disobedient role model(obedience) or creating a small alternategroup to belong to (conformity). It breaks the group's unanimity and challenges the authority figure's legitimate authority |
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How does Asch's research support the social support explanation? |
The unanimity variation. When the Confederate, just before the participant,provided social support by giving the correct response, conformity dropped significantly, from 32% of critical trails to just 5.5% of critical trials. |
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How does Asch's research contradict the social support explanation? |
Even with social support, people still give the wrong answer on an unambiguoustask in 5.5% of trials, which suggestssome people have a dispositional inability to resist social influence. |
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What is LOC as an explanation of resistance to social influence? |
Rotter (1966) suggests a factor of personality is a sense of what controlstheir lives, and this can be measured on a scale ranging from a high internal LOC to a high external locus of control. A high, internal LOC is an ability to resist SIpressure. |
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Explain the difference between a high external and high internal LOC |
high internal LOC: feel their actionscontrol their lives, and have responsibility for their actions. They are less concerned with social approval. High external LOC feels their lives are controlled by externalforces, such as others, fate, and the government. |
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What other explanations for resistance may be more likely than LOC? |
Locus of control is a dispositionalexplanation of resistance; however, others have found situational pressures are critical to whether an individual can resist SI or not, such as location, presence of social support, and uniform (Milgram) |
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How does Holland's (1967) research support the LOC explanation? |
In a replication of Milgram, participants were assessed for LOC. 37% of those with an internal LOC refused to continue (obey)to the highest shock level, compared to23% with an external LOC. |
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How does Spector's (1983) research support the LOC explanation? |
1 57 students were assessed according to Rotter's LOC and evaluated for NSl and ISItendencies. Spector found a correlation between those who had an externallocus of control and those influenced by normative social influence (but not ISI) |
