Aqa psychology- social influence exam questions and answers

Aqa psychology- social influence exam questions and answers What are the 3 types of confomrity - Answer-1) compiance 2) identification 3)internalistation What does internalisation mean? - Answer-When a person genuinely accepts the groups norms and public and privately changes their opinions and behaviours, this is normally a permanent change What does identification mean? - Answer-Sometimes we conform to the opinions of the group because there is something that we value, we change our view publicity because we want to be part of it even if we privately done agree with everything the group stand for What does compliance mean? - Answer-This is when you just go along with other in public but privately don't change your behaviour or opinions, this behaviour will also stop when a person leaves a group What are the two explain toons for conformity? - Answer-1) informational social influence 2) normative social influence What does informational social influence mean? - Answer-This is when you conform to the group because you want to be right What does normative social influence mean? - Answer-This is when you conform because you want to fit in and be accepted by the group Evaluate the explanations to conformity - Answer-Strength: research had be done on informational social influence. Lucas et al ad students to answer a mathematical problems which went from easy to difficult. They found students who said they had poor maths skilled conformed more to the incorrect answers because they assumed the other must be right Weakness: research had been done on normative social influence and its finds it doesn't effect everyone the same because some people are less concerned about fitting in Explain aschs procedure and findings - Answer-Procedure: tested conformity by showing participant two cards. One card had a length of one vertical line and the other card had three vertical lines one matching the length of the first line on the other card. The test was done on 123 American makes and they was tested individually with a group of 6 confederates. The confederates were told to give the wrong answer when it was obviously right to see if the participant would conform Findings: participants had the wrong answer 37% of the time, 25% never confirmed which means 75% conformed at least once. When interviewed afterwards they said they confirmed because they didn't want to be rejected from the group What are the variations of asch? - Answer-1) group size- when there was more confederate a the conformity levels rose