Resistance to Social Influence
A01- KNOWLEDGE A03 - EVALUATION
Describe and evaluate two explanations of resistance to social influence
- Social support can help people to - Research evidence supports the link
resist conformity and the pressure between LOC and resistance to
to conform can be reduced if there obedience. Holland repeated
are other people present who aren't Milgram's baseline study and
conforming. As we saw in Asch's measure whether Ps were internals
research the person not conforming or externals. He found that 37% of
doesn't have to be giving the right internals didn't continue to the
answer but simply the fact that highest shock level, whereas only
someone else is not following the 23% of externals didn't continue, so
majority appears to enable a person internals showed greater resistance
to be free to follow their own to authority. Research support of
conscious, so this other person acts this nature increases the validity of
as a 'model'. However, Asch's the LOC explanation and our
research showed that if this confidence that it can explain
'nonconforming' person starts resistance
conforming again, so does the naïve - However, not all research supports
P, thus the effect of dissent isn't the link between LOC and
long lasting resistance. Twinge et al analysed
- Social support can help people to data from American LOC studies
resist obedience and the pressure to over a 40-year period. The data
obey can be reduced if there is showed that people have become
another person who is seen to more resistant to obedience but
disobey. In one of Milgram's also more external. If resistance
variations, rate of obedience were linked to an internal LOC, we
dropped from 65% to 10% when the would expect people to have
genuine P was joined by a become more internal. This
disobedient confederate. The P may challenges the link between internal
not follow the disobedient person's LOC and increasing resistant
behaviour, but the point is the other behaviour. However, it is possible
person's disobedience acts as a that the results are due to a
'model' for P to copy that frees him changing society where many things
to act his own conscious. are out of personal control.
- The term locus of control refers to a - Allen and Levine looked at whether
A01- KNOWLEDGE A03 - EVALUATION
Describe and evaluate two explanations of resistance to social influence
- Social support can help people to - Research evidence supports the link
resist conformity and the pressure between LOC and resistance to
to conform can be reduced if there obedience. Holland repeated
are other people present who aren't Milgram's baseline study and
conforming. As we saw in Asch's measure whether Ps were internals
research the person not conforming or externals. He found that 37% of
doesn't have to be giving the right internals didn't continue to the
answer but simply the fact that highest shock level, whereas only
someone else is not following the 23% of externals didn't continue, so
majority appears to enable a person internals showed greater resistance
to be free to follow their own to authority. Research support of
conscious, so this other person acts this nature increases the validity of
as a 'model'. However, Asch's the LOC explanation and our
research showed that if this confidence that it can explain
'nonconforming' person starts resistance
conforming again, so does the naïve - However, not all research supports
P, thus the effect of dissent isn't the link between LOC and
long lasting resistance. Twinge et al analysed
- Social support can help people to data from American LOC studies
resist obedience and the pressure to over a 40-year period. The data
obey can be reduced if there is showed that people have become
another person who is seen to more resistant to obedience but
disobey. In one of Milgram's also more external. If resistance
variations, rate of obedience were linked to an internal LOC, we
dropped from 65% to 10% when the would expect people to have
genuine P was joined by a become more internal. This
disobedient confederate. The P may challenges the link between internal
not follow the disobedient person's LOC and increasing resistant
behaviour, but the point is the other behaviour. However, it is possible
person's disobedience acts as a that the results are due to a
'model' for P to copy that frees him changing society where many things
to act his own conscious. are out of personal control.
- The term locus of control refers to a - Allen and Levine looked at whether
