Chat with AIExam 8: Conformity: Influencing Behavior
The text discussed informational social influence and normative social influence.First, describe the two types of social influence and give a real life example of each.Be sure to clearly explain how your example demonstrates that particular type of social influence.
(40) 
VerifiedInformational social influence occurs when individuals are looking to others to provide them with information about an ambiguous situation or stimulus. Because individuals in these types of situations are uncertain about the situation, they are more likely to internalize the information, which would lead to private acceptance. An example of this would be when students take down notes because they see other students writing something down. This is an example of informational social influence because the individuals are looking to others to decide when it is appropriate or necessary to behave in a specific way. On the other hand, normative social influence occurs when individuals want to be accepted. This type of social influence is more likely to lead to public compliance rather than private acceptance. For example, if a group of friends endorsed a particular candidate during a discussion around a table, a single individual at the table may publicly go along with the majority opinion because he or she wants to be liked and accepted. However, in the actual voting booth, the individual may still vote for his or her favored candidate.
What is the relation between idiosyncrasy credits and normative conformity? Provide a concrete example of this relation.
(38) VerifiedWhen group members conform over time to the normative influence attempts of others, those conforming members earn "credit" that they can later use to resist such normative pressures. Edwin Hollander (1958, 1960) called these credits that people earn over time "idiosyncrasy credits." Ironically, conformity over time earns an individual more idiosyncrasy credits, which he or she can later use to behave deviantly without censure or disapproval from group members. [Note: Any example will do so long as students include two key ideas: conformity over time to normative influence pressures, and the right to deviate without censure later.]
Recall that Solomon Asch (1951, 1956) asked participants to estimate the lengths of lines.In response to the incorrect answers of others, some participants actually denied what their eyes saw.These studies provide evidence of
(33) VerifiedA
Paul spent Saturday picking up litter on a nearby beach with the biology club.At the end of a very long, hot day, one of the other members asked him to come with the group that evening to catch some invasive lizards as part of a science project.Paul hates lizards.Paul is more likely to agree to the second request now, after spending the day picking up litter, because of
(34) Explain how both informational conformity and normative conformity could contribute to eating disorders in women.
(49) When it is important to provide a correct answer and the stakes are high, people are more likely to
(33) It could be argued that participants in Muzafer Sherif's (1936) study converged in their estimates of the amount of movement of a point of light because they were avoiding public embarrassment or social censure from other participants.Sherif demonstrated that this was unlikely when he found similar results
(36) Informational social influence is to ________ as normative social influence is to ________.
(33) To avoid _______, people will agree with a second, even unattractive, request as part of the foot-in-the-door technique.
(34) Deviant behavior is usually met with rejection.For example, in Japan, deviants in school tend to be shunned and harassed by their entire class or school.Such treatment is particularly psychologically damaging in Japan because the culture
(38) According to the authors of your text, what is the most plausible explanation as to why the U.S.soldiers followed their lieutenant's orders to massacre the citizens of the peaceful village of My Lai during the Vietnam War?
(33) If a person deviates from the norms of a group, the first thing the group is likely to do is
(45) When "Freedom Riders" conformed with their group of fellow civil rights activists, they conformed by behaving ________, but when soldiers in the Vietnamese village of My Lai conformed, they behaved ________, illustrating that conformity itself it not always simply good or bad.
(37) Imagine that you are on the Olympics Planning Committee.Nine out of 10 of the committee members hold the same opinions.However, one member, Laura, consistently deviates from the group's opinion.How is your group most likely to act toward Laura to bring her in line with the group's opinion? The group will
(28) In the "Johnny Rocco" studies conducted by Schachter (1951), he found that when a confederate stubbornly deviated from the opinion of the rest of the group, the confederate then was more likely to
(24) Which student below is being exposed to an attempt to change behavior based on the "social norms" approach?
(24) Informational social influence does not always produce conformity, but informational conformity is more likely in some situations than in others.What factors increase conformity to informational social influence?
(31) Complete the following analogy: injunctive norm: ________ :: descriptive norm: ________.
(31) Mass psychogenic illness, when many people in a group suddenly begin to feel sick, shows the power of
(31) Burger's (2009) replication of Milgram's studies on obedience to authority suggests that compared with people in the 1970s, people in 2006 were ________ likely to obey authority.
(26) 
Filters
- Essay(0)
- Multiple Choice(0)
- Short Answer(0)
- True False(0)
- Matching(0)