Psychology: Conformity and Majority Influence

Compliance refers to instances where a person may agree in public with a group of people, but the person privately ______ with the group’s viewpoint or behavior.

Internalisation is the deepest level of ______ where the beliefs of the group become part of the individual’s own belief system.

Identification occurs when someone conforms to the demands of a given ______ role in society.

Normative social influence is where a person conforms to fit in with the group because they don’t want to appear ______ or be left out.

Normative social influence tends to lead to ______ because the person smokes just for show but deep down they wish not to smoke.

A person may laugh at a joke because their group of friends find it funny, but deep down the person does not find the joke ______.

An example of internalisation is if someone lived with a vegetarian at university and then decides to also become one too because they agree with their friend’s ______.

Asch’s Line Study is a study on ______.

This means any change of behavior is ______.

Informational social influence is where a person conforms because they have a desire to be ______.

For a study on informational influence refer to ______.

Conforming to a social role is called ______.

The Agentic State says that people will obey an authority when they believe that the authority will take responsibility for the ______ of their actions.

Adorno felt that ______ factors rather than situational factors could explain obedience.

One of the various characteristics of the authoritarian personality is that the individual is hostile to those who are of inferior ______, but obedient of people with high ______.

In one of Asch’s experimental variations he showed that the presence of a ______ led to a decrease in the conformity levels in true participants.

Social support also decreases obedience to ______.

The presence of others who are seen to disobey the ______ figure reduced the level of obedience to 10%.

Moscovici had a group of ______ participants and a range of blue/ green slides varying in intensity.

The study had two conditions, confederates who consistently said ______ and an inconsistent group and a control group with no confederates.

Once the minority begin to persuade people round to their way of thinking, a ______ effect begins to happen.

This is a process known as ______ where people do often not even remember where the opinion originated from.

People are less likely to behave in ______ friendly ways due to the negative connotations associated with them.

Minorities wanting social change should avoid behaviors that reinforce social change – essentially ______ to the majority.

A person can either have an internal or external ______ of control.

People with a high internal ______ of control perceive themselves as having a great deal of personal control over their behavior.

Identification is just as important as agreeing with the ______ of the minority group in order to change the behavior of the majority.

The majority opinion then becomes ______, and people have to obey this law.

Minority influence is usually a result of ______ change.

Consistency is the most important factor in deciding whether the minority are ______ or not.

People with an internal ______ of control tend to be less conforming and less obedient.

Moscovici stated that being consistent and unchanging in a view is more likely to influence the ______ than if a minority is inconsistent.

The minority position changed, it was not ______, and it was this change that apparently resulted in minority influence.

When the majority is confronted with someone with self-confidence and dedication to take a popular stand and refuses to back down, they may assume that he or she has a ______.

Social change is usually a result of minority influence, which is when a small group of people manage to persuade the ______ to adopt their point of view.

Through these processes more and more of the ______ will gradually change towards the cause resulting in the snowball effect.

Compliance refers to instances where a person may agree in public with a group of people, but the person privately ______ with the group’s viewpoint or behavior.

Internalisation is where a person publicly changes behavior to fit in with the group while also ______ with them privately.

Identification occurs when someone conforms to the demands of a given social ______ in society.

Normative social influence is where a person conforms to fit in with the group because they don’t want to appear ______ or be left out.

A person may laugh at a joke because their group of friends find it funny, but deep down the person does not find the joke ______.

An example of internalisation is if someone lived with a vegetarian at university and then decides to also become one too because they agree with their friend’s ______.

Asch’s Line Study is a study on ______.

Normative social influence is usually associated with ______, where a person changes their public behavior but not their private beliefs.

Informational social influence is where a person conforms because they have a desire to be ______ and look to others who they believe may have more information.

For a study on normative influence refer to ______.

[Blank] to social roles is called identification.

The Agentic State says that people will obey an authority when they believe that the authority will take responsibility for the ______ of their actions.

Adorno felt that ______ factors rather than situational factors could explain obedience.

In one of Asch’s experimental variations he showed that the presence of a ______ led to a decrease in the conformity levels in true participants.

Social support also decreases obedience to ______.

The presence of others who are seen to disobey the ______ figure reduced the level of obedience to 10%.

Internalisation is the deepest level of ______ where the beliefs of the group become part of the individual’s own belief system.

This means any change of behavior is ______.

Moscovici investigated the importance of ______.

Once the minority begin to persuade people round to their way of thinking, a ______ effect begins to happen.

This is a process known as ______ where people do often not even remember where the opinion originated from.

People are less likely to behave in environmentally ______ ways due to the negative connotations associated with them.

Minorities wanting social change should avoid behaviors that reinforce social change – essentially ______ to the majority.

Identification is just as important as agreeing with the ______ of the minority group in order to change the behavior of the majority.

The majority opinion then becomes ______, and people have to obey this law.

Social change is usually a result of minority influence, which is when a small group of people manage to persuade the ______ to adopt their point of view.

The term ‘Locus of control’ refers to how much control a person feels they have in their own ______.

A person with a high internal locus of control perceive themselves as having a great deal of personal control over their ______.

People with an internal locus of control tend to be less ______ and less obedient.

Moscovici stated that being consistent and unchanging in a view is more likely to influence the ______ than if a minority is inconsistent.

When the majority is confronted with someone with self-confidence and dedication to take a popular stand and refuses to back down, they may assume that he or she has a ______.

Social change is usually a result of minority influence, which is when a small group of people manage to persuade the ______ to adopt their point of view.

Through these processes more and more of the ______ will gradually change towards the cause resulting in the snowball effect.

The minority position changed, it was not ______, and it was this change that apparently resulted in minority influence.

Consistency is the most important factor in deciding whether the minority are ______ or not.

Committed minorities, such as those who risk themselves for their cause has an effect on the ______ through an augmentation principle.