Resistance to Social Influence and Research Methods

What two explanations can be used to explain why people resist social influence?

• Social support and legitimacy of authority

• Social support and agentic state

• Social support and locus of control

• Social support and proximity

Social support helps people to resist social influence because...

• it breaks the unanimity of the majority

• it gives a model of disobedience that can be followed

• it frees people to follow their own conscience

• All of these answers

External locus of is more likely to resist social influence

• True

• False

A person's locus of control is fixed and set (cannot be altered)

• True

• False

High internals are less likely to resist than high externals (Locus of Control)

• True

• False

Ethan just got an A for his mock exam and is really pleased that he spent the last few weeks practising exam questions.

• Internal Locus of Control
• External Locus of Control

Georgia has just failed her driving test.  She swerved the car when a bee came through the open window and hit a lamp post.

• Internal Locus of Control
• External Locus of Control

Social support helps people to resist social influence because:

• It breaks the unanimity of the majority

• It provides a model of disobedience to be followed.

• It frees people to act according to their conscience.

• All of the above.

Which of these statements about locus of control is the most accurate?

• Everyone is either definitely internal or definitely external

• There is very difference between moderate internals and moderate externals

• High internals and high externals are at opposite ends of a continuum.

• Internals and externals are very similar in their ability to resist social influence.

The effect of social support can be seen in Milgram's experiment when:

• When the genuine participant was joined by a disobedient confederate

• When the experimenter asks the participant to continue

• When the experimenter wears casual clothes

• When the participant and the learners are in the same room.