Social Influence: Crash Course Study Guide PDF

**[What Limits and Encourages Social Change?]** [**[Social Influence: Crash Course ]**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGxGDdQnC1Y) 1. What question was Milgram's experiment trying to answer? 2. What were Milgram's methods? 3. What were the results? 4. Why are these results important to us...

**[What Limits and Encourages Social Change?]** [**[Social Influence: Crash Course ]**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGxGDdQnC1Y) 1. What question was Milgram's experiment trying to answer? 2. What were Milgram's methods? 3. What were the results? 4. Why are these results important to us as social psychologists? 5. What is automatic mimicry? Give an example. 6. What is conformity? 7. What does Ash's experiment show? 8. What is normative social influence? 9. What is social facilitation? Give an example. 10. What is deindividuation? Give an example. 11. What is group polarization? Give an example. 12. How does the internet affect conformity and deviance? 13. What is groupthink? Give a historical example. 14. "It's best to understand ourselves and our decisions as informed simultaneously by both individual and group factors, personality, and situation." Using what you learned in the video, explain why this is true. **Social Control** In this topic, you will learn about the social controls that are put in place in our society as means of monitoring and restraining the scale and intensity of social change. Informal control: - Informal social control is very powerful because it comes from customs, cultural rules, and traditions. It affects how we behave every day and makes us think about what is right or wrong. - Informal control leads to informal repercussions, like a disapproving look, sarcasm, shame, or ridicule when a member of society acts in a way that is not in accordance with social norms. ----------------------------- *Example from your school:* ----------------------------- Formal control: - Formal control is vital for keeping order in big, complicated societies. It\'s usually enforced by government officials like the police, the courts, and the prison system, especially in the criminal justice system. - Formal control is enforced to sanction deviant social behaviour. Certain laws, like those which define murder as crime, apply to all members of Canadian society. It is a formal control put in place to keep members of society safe. ----------------------------- *Example from your school:* ----------------------------- **A Historic Example** In the 1930s, Germany witnessed a tragic illustration of how conformity can lead to significant social upheaval. The Nazi Party gradually rose to power, promising a prosperous and powerful Germany once they dealt with the \"Jewish Problem.\" Influential leaders gained more support, governing with authoritarian leadership that demanded complete obedience. German citizens were expected to conform to the majority\'s rules. This resulted in the systematic murder of nearly six million Jews during the Holocaust, with many more forced to flee Europe as Germany adopted new political regulations and social standards. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ **How does social control limit social change?** **How does social control encourage social change?** -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ **Answer Key: Social Influence: Crash Course** 1. What question was Milgram's experiment trying to answer? How far a person will go when given orders. 2. What were Milgram's methods? Faked shock therapy. The individual was told to continue shocking the actor, and Milgram studied when and why they would stop administering shocks. 3. What were the results? ⅔ if the participants followed orders and administered painful shocks 4. Why are these results important to us as social psychologists? Shows us the influence of groups on people and how far we will go to conform. 5. What is automatic mimicry? Give an example. Copying another person's mannerisms subconsciously. 6. What is conformity? Tendency to follow norms. 7. What does Ash's experiment show? People tend to conform more if they are made to feel incompetent or in groups larger than 3. 8. What is normative social influence? Social norms you are influenced by. We tend to follow these social norms so as not to be made to appear foolish. Feeling that you need to comply in a norm in order to be more liked. 9. What is social facilitation? Give an example. Tendency of people to want to contribute more if part of a social group. 10. What is deindividuation? Give an example. Lack of sense of self in large groups. This means that we tend to follow the will of the group, whether good or bad. 11. What is group polarization? Give an example. The tendency of groups to make decisions that are more extreme than the inclination of the members individually. 12. How does the internet affect conformity and deviance? Large groups of people spread opinions and beliefs and influence others. A very easy to spread information and opinions. 13. What is groupthink? Give a historical example. When a group gets wrapped up in itself and does not look at opinions or beliefs from other perspectives.