PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Social Influence, Groupthink, Attachment Theory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

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Conformity: adjusting one"s attitudes and behaviours to coincide with a group norm. Answering in the language you are addressed, obeying traffic laws, waiting in line. Compliance: a change in behaviour elicited by a direct request from another individual who is not an authority figure. Obedience: compliant behaviour produced by the commands of authority. Children obey their parents, animals obey the dominant, evolutionary advances. Describe under what conditions people conform and why. Informational influence: people conform because they believe others are correct in their judgements, others are more knowledgeable than them. Normative influence: social influence that leads people to fear consequences of deviating from group norms. Private conformity: when a person experiences changes in overt behaviours and beliefs. Public conformity: when a person demonstrates superficial changes in overt behaviour only. Explain compliance and the principles that are used to facilitate its occurrence. Identify the factors that lead to increased obedience in milgram"s experiments.