social psych conformity & obedience (unit 4)

adjusting ________ to think/go along with a ______: conformity

if all your friends want to commit a crime and you go along with it, this is an example of…

what does conforming give you that we talked about way at the beginning of the year

HOW we conform… take on an action a group does because it’s the right thing to do, you’re not second guessing at all, you just fully believe the group is right

HOW we conform… take on thinking & behaviors of a group to fulfill your role as a member of that group

HOW we conform… take on a group’s action even if you don’t believe it’s right because you don’t want to rock the boat

WHY we conform… we want to act the right way, know we don’t know everything, so we adopt behaviors

WHY we conform… this is to avoid cognitive dissonance and/or because of our evolutionary instinct of survival

4 main factors influencing how likely we are to conform… is the group u_________ or is there a d_______? is the task e____ or ________? answer publicly or _________? are the group members _________ to you?

which man did the experiment with the lines and how tall they were?

listening to authority figures

which man studied obedience and how far people would go to submit to authority with shocks

what is the cause of the behavior… _______ factors such as personality, ________ factors such as the situation

___________ attrubution: attributing actions to intelligence, personality, or attitude

__________ attribution: (this is usually why) actions are attributed to group pressure, social norms, weather, luck

certain people are more likely to follow orders than others, heavily influenced by upbringing, conditioned to be more obedient

if we hold the authority in high regard AND we feel they’re the one responsible for the actions, we’re likely to obey (it’s implied here that the person giving the order knows best and is ultimately responsible for the outcome)

4 factors that influence obedience… how directly __________ are you for the harm? what’s the ______ of the authority figure? are others obeying or is there a _________? is someone else going to take ________?

defiance is focused on the ____, most likely to occur when you are in an _________ state, and social support for your defiance is crucial