Conformity
A change in behavior or belief as the result of real or imagined group pressure
Compliance
Conformity that involves publicly acting in
... [Show More] accord with an implied or explicit request while privately disagreeing
Obedience
Acting in accord with a direct order or command
Acceptance
Conformity that involves both acting and believing in accord with social pressure
Sherif's Study on Norm Formation
Participants were put in a dark room and asked to give a distance of a light moving. The next day, a group was put under the same situation. Eventually all agreed on a distance by the fourth day. In reality, the light never moved (auto kinetic phenomenon). Even after a year, the group participants still believed in the same estimate that the group created.
Autokinetic Phenomenon
The apparent movement of a stationary point of light in the dark. Sherif took advantage of this during his study.
The Chameleon Effect
Our natural mimicry of others' postures.
Mimicking one's behavior causes ___, except if angry behavior is copied.
Likeness
Mass Hysteria
When suggestibility happens on a large scale. It's the spread of bodily complaints within a group without an organic basis for the symptoms
Asch's Study "The Line Test"
Insight to compliance conformity. In a confederate group, one participant was placed. The confederates said the obviously wrong answer which caused the participant to also say the wrong answer.
Milgram's Obedience Study
Participants were ordered by an experimenter to deliver shocks to the "student" if they guessed the incorrect answer. This study measures obedience conformity, and to everyone's surprise: 65% progressed to the 450 volt.
If a ___ began to say commands, the participants didn't compliance to their commands decreased
Person with low authority, like a confederate and not the experimenter
The more ___ the teacher had with the learner...the ___ chance of obeying.
distance; less
The ___ ___ of an experimenter caused __ obedience in the participants
Physical presence, more
Obedience was low when the experimenter instructed through a telephone.
Milgram conducted his study somewhere else other than Yale, and the obedience rate was ___.
Still significantly high
Authorities backed by institutions, like a police officer, increase ___.
Obedience
Liberating effect
Ex: When one or two people speak up against authority, people will follow.
Normative Influence
Conformity based on a person's desire to fulfill other's expectations, often to gain acceptance.
___ often leads to compliance.
Normative influence
___ often sways us without our awareness
Normative influence
Informational Influence
Conformity occurring when people accept evidence about reality provided by other people.
___ leads people to privately accept others' influence.
Informational influence
Ex: From Sherif's study, the person possibly thought "this person seems to know how far the light is moving" so they agreed.
The desire to be correct produces ___.
Informational influence
The concern for social image produces ___.
Normative influence
Reentry Distress
Occurs when we have adjusted our behavior for one situation, and then we renter a different situation.
Usually happens when we change cultures. [Show Less]