chapter 1-social influence

what are the three types of conformity?

what is internalisation?

what is identification?

what is compliance?

what is ISI about? what kind of process is it? in what situations would someone likely display this?

what is NSI about and what kind of process is it? in what situations would someone likely display this?

evaluation points for types and explanations for conformity?

what research is there to support ISI? what were the results?

what are the individual differences affecting NSI?

what evidence is there to support ISI and NSI work together?

research support for NSI?

explain Asch's procedure into his research conformity

findings of Asch's research

what is the Asch effect?

what were Asch's variables?

what did Asch find about conformity linked to group size?

how does unanimity effect conformity? (Asch)

how does task difficulty affect conformity? (Asch)

evaluation points for Aschs research into conformity

why was Asch's experiment a "child of its time"

how does artificial task and situation effect Asch's experiment?

why does Asch's experiment have limited application of findings?

what is the ethical issue of Asch's experiment?

what does the term baseline study mean?

what was Milgram researching for?

what was Milgram's procedure for testing obedience?

what increments did the voltage go up in Milgram's experiment and what was the total voltage?

if the teacher felt unwilling to carry on, what did the experimenter do?

what did Milgram find?

why did people obey in Milgrams experiment to do these horrendous things?

evaluation points for Milgram's research

why do some people argue that Milgram's experiment has low internal validity?

research support for Milgram's experiment

how does Milgram's experiment have high external validity?

what evidence is there to support Milgram's experiment had good external validity?

what evidence is there to support Milgram's findings?

what is an alternative explanation to what Milgram found? how do we know this is a possible explanation?

what were the situational variables in Milgrams study of obedience?

how does proximity affect obedience?

how does location and uniform affect obedience?

evaluation points of milgrams sutuations variables

what research support is there for milgrams situational variables

why does milgrams situational variation experiment lack internal validity

how do cross cultural replications support milgrams baseline and situational variables experiment?

what is the strength of Milgrams control of variables in his situational variables experiment?

what is a serious limitation/ethical issue of Milgrams situational variables experiment?

what was Zimbardo testing for that would effect conformity to social roles?

what was Zimbardo's procedure?

what were the findings of zimbardo's experiment?

what was the conclusion that Zimbardo came to?

evaluation points for Zimbardo's research

why was having control in Zimbardo's experiment a strength?

what evidence did Zimbardo have that argued that his experiment had mundane realism? why did some argue that it did not have mundane realism?

what was Zimbardo criticised for when explaining why the participants acted like this

what challenged Zimbardo's findings and conclusions? and what did they put it down to?

what were ethical issues in Zimbardo's experiment?

what does agentic state mean? what does one under the agentic state feel?

what is meant by the autonomous state?

what is the transition from autonomous state to agentic state called? and why might this happen?

what is the explanation to staying in the agentic state? and what are they?

what is destructive authority? and how was this shown in Milgram's experiment?

evaluation points for situational explanations for obedience

research support for agentic state

why does the agentic state have a limited explanation?

what is a strength to do with legitimate authority (cultural differences)

what is a limitation for the agentic state explanation?

what was Theodor Adorno researching into?

what was Adorno's procedure?

what is the F-scale? and what is it still used to measure?

what did Adorno find? (F-scale?)

what characteristics do people with an authoritarian personality posses?

what are the origins of an authoritarian personality?

what does Adorno argue this type of parenting style (authoritarian) creates?

evaluation points for authoritarian personalities

what research is there to support Adorno's authoritarianism theory into obedience?

why is the authoritarian personality a limited explanation into obedience?

-why does using the F-scale to determine authoritarian personality have political bias?

what is the methodological problem with measuring the authoritarian personality?

what is social support and what can it help one do?

what are the two types of locus of controls?

what do people with internal locus of control believe?

what do people with external locus of control believe?

why do people with high internal locus of control resist conformity?

research support into resistance to conformity? (social support) and what does this research suggest?

research support into resistance to
obedience? and what does this show?

research support for LOC in resistance to social influence

what contradictory evidence is there for LOC in resistance of social influence?

why might LOC only have a limited role?

what is the difference between conformity and obedience?

how is locus of control measured?

what does minority influence mean?

what are the processes of minority influence?

what is consistency in minority influence? and how does this help influence the majority influence

what does flexibility mean in terms of minority influence?

what is commitment in minority influence?

what happens when the majority increasingly join the minority?

evaluation points for minority influence

what research is there to support consistency?

research support for depth of thought

what is the problem with artificial tasks used to measure minority influence?

what is social influence? what is social change

what processes need to happen for social change?

what does _ mean?
-deeper processing
-augmented principle
-social cryptomnesia

what lessons can be learnt from research into conformity that can be used in resistance to social influence

what lessons can be taken from obedience research and used in resistance to social influence?

evaluation points for social change

research support for normative social influences in social change

why is minority influence only indirectly effective?

why is there dispute on deeper thinking/processing in M.I?

what are the barriers that can effect social change?

what research is there in support of internalisation in minority influence?

why do research studies into minority influence have limited real life application?