Social Influence

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A level (Year one) Psychology Mapa Mental sobre Social Influence, creado por Elizabeth Hallam el 03/11/2017.
Elizabeth Hallam
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Social Influence
  1. Conformity
    1. Types
      1. Internalisation: Genuinely accept groups norms. Changing behaviour both publicly and privately.
        1. Identification: Value the group and so change behaviour even if privately you do not.
          1. Compliance: change behaviour publicly just go along with things, but privately you do not.
            1. Explanations
              1. ISI: informational social influence. This occurs when somebody does not want to be wrong and so goes along with others due to believing that they are correct.
                1. NSI: normative social influence. Involves going along with others due to the desire to be liked and fear of rejection if you do not.
              2. Asch's research
                1. Aim: Investigate extent to which people conform to social or group pressure
                  1. Procedure: 50 male students, believed to be taking part in vision test. Put in room with 7 confederates. Standard line and three comparison lines; Answer was always obvious. 12/18 trials confederates gave wrong answer.
                    1. Findings: 75% of critical trials conformed at least once, 25% never conformed.
                      1. Conclusion: After ppts said they knew the answer was wrong but were in fear of being ridiculed(NSI) whereas some did genuinely believe the group was correct. (ISI)
                      2. Zimbardo's research
                        1. Aim: find out whether people conform to social roles specifically in prison life. Wanted to find out whether the brutal treatment of prisoners by American guards was due to dispositional factors or situational.
                          1. Procedure: mock prison at Stanford university. 24 male students took part (paid daily). Randomly assigned role of prisoner or guard. Very realistic prisoners arrested at own homes,blindfolded,stripped naked and given a number. They were only addressed by this number. Guards all given uniform including mirrored glasses(stop emotional contact), handcuffs and club.
                            1. Findings: soon adapted to behaviour. Guards were very fast and ended up using fire extiguishers as well as verbal and physical abuse. Experiment had to be terminated early. Even zimbardo conformed to role of superintendant.
                          2. Obedience
                            1. Situational variables (MILGRAM)
                              1. Proximity: The physical closeness
                                1. Teacher and learner in same room-obedience rate dropped. Teacher forced learners hand onto plate-obedience dropped even further. When experimenter gave instructions via telephone-obedience dropped even further.
                                2. Location: Where the order is issued
                                  1. Conducted study in run down building instead of prestigious Yale-obedience fell.
                                  2. Uniform: Outfit
                                    1. Original study experimenter wore grey lab coat. Variation study: experimenter called away and role taken over by ordinary member of public in everyday clothes-obedience dropped.
                                  3. social-psychological factors
                                    1. AGENTIC STATE: Feel no personal responsibility for our actions because we believe we are agents working on behalf of an authority figure.
                                      1. Why do people stay in this state? Binding factors: aspects of the situation that minimise the damage caused thus reducing the moral strain
                                      2. AUTONOMOUS STATE: Opposite of agentic state. We feel personally responsible for our actions.
                                        1. AGENTIC SHIFT: Moving from autonomous state to agentic
                                          1. LEGITIMACY OF AUTHORITY: more likely to obey people we perceive to have authority over us. Made legitmate by individuals position of power within the social hierarchy.
                                            1. Problems arise when it becomes destructive- ordering people to behave in evil ways.
                                          2. Dispositional explanations
                                            1. Theodor Adorno: AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY
                                              1. PROCEDURE:2000 middle-class white Americans and unconcious attitudes towards other racial groups. Developed F-scale test.
                                                1. FINDINGS: those who scored highly identified with strong people who were disrespectful of the weak. Conscious of their own and others status. Cognitive style with no fuzziness between categories of people.Positive correlation between AP and prejudice.
                                                  1. ORIGIN OF AP: formed in childhood as result of harsh parenting:conditional love. Create hostility in the child who displace fears onto others perceived as weaker(psycho-dynamic explanation)
                                                2. MILGRAM'S RESEARCH
                                                  1. AIM: find out why the German population followed the brutal orders sent out by Hitler during WW2
                                                    1. PROCEDURE: 40 male ppts found through volunteer leaflet advertising a study about memory.Aged between 20-50yrs. Rigged draw-confederate 'Mr Wallace' always ended up as the learner and the ppt as teacher. There was another confederate who acted as experimenter.Told they could leave at any time. Learner strapped to chair with electrodes in another room and teacher required to give an increasingly strong electric shock everytime the learner got an answer wrong. Shock level started at 15v-450v. After 315v there would be no response from the learner. When asking for guidance, experimenter gave 4 prods. Please continue,the experiment requires you continue,its essential you continue and you have no other choice, you must go on.
                                                      1. FINDINGS: no ppts stopped below 300v. 65% continued to the highest level. Qualitative data showed extreme tension. All ppts debriefed and assured behaviour was normal. Follow up questionaire showed 84% were glad they participated.
                                                    2. Resistance to social influence
                                                      1. SOCIAL SUPPORT
                                                        1. The presence of people who resist pressures to conform or obey helps others to do the same.
                                                        2. LOCUS OF CONTROL
                                                          1. Sense we have about what directs us in our lives: Internal LOC-we are responsible for what happens to us. External LOC- A matter of luck or external influence that is responsible for what happens to us
                                                            1. Internal LOC: More likely to resist pressures to conform or obey
                                                              1. External LOC: Less likely to resist pressures to conform
                                                          2. Minority influence
                                                            1. A form of social influence in which a minority of people persuade others to adopt their beliefs, attitudes or behaviours.
                                                              1. Consistency
                                                                1. Minority should stick to the same beliefs between all people part of the minority and over time. This will draw attention to the cause.
                                                                2. Commitment
                                                                  1. Minority should demonstrate their position, like making personal sacrifices. This is effective because it shows they are not acting out of self-interest.
                                                                  2. Flexability
                                                                    1. Relentless consistency could be counter-productive if seen as unreasonable. Should show flexability by listening to others views and accepting possibility of compromise.
                                                                  3. social influence and social change
                                                                    1. How minority influence creates social change:
                                                                      1. 1. Drawing attention through social proof
                                                                        1. 2. Consistency
                                                                          1. 3. Deeper processing
                                                                            1. 4. Augmentation principle
                                                                              1. 5. Snowball effect
                                                                                1. 6. Social cryptomnesia
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