PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Social Influence, Timbits
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Social influence: the many ways that people affect one another including changes in attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and behavior that result from the comment, actions or even the mere presence of others. Conformity: changing one"s behavior or beliefs in response to explicit or implicit pressure (whether real or imagined) from others. Pressure can be said clearly or implied, and it can be all in the mind it still counts. Compliance: responding favorably to an explicit request made by another person. Your friend asks you to buy her a timbit and you say yes, you comply. Obedience: in an unequal power relationship, submitting to the demands of the more powerful person. Ideomotor action: the phenomenon whereby merely thinking about a behavior makes its actual performance more likely. e. g. thinking about eating a bowl of ice cream only makes you want to eat it more.
