Social influence GCSE OCR - Key concepts

What does social psychology look at?

• How others influence our behavior, thoughts and feelings

• How we behave

• How our brain influences our behavior, thoughts and actions

• How people react to situations

What is not a factor that is a key concept of social influence?

• Conformity

• Collective and crowd behavior

• Listening

• Obedience

Which of these statements is not correct when outlining what conformity is?

• Yielding to group pressure

• Changing how you think and behave in order to fit in with a group

• People conform due to social pressure

• Conformity is nothing to do with pretending to like something to fit in

Collective behavior is:

• Two more more people's behavior who have come together

• a standard way of behaving

• The actions of an individual against a group

• Someone behaving as others do

Finish this sentence:

One of the major effects of being in a crowd or a collective group is:

• People behave like normal - there is no major effect.

• individuals experience deindividuation

• People are affected by time pressures

• People think for themselves at all times

Norms are:

• The standard way a person thinks

• Pressure to be good

• A standard way to behave

Pro social behavior is:

• Actions that work in favour of society

• Actions that are positive to just one person

• Simply being nice to someone. This is the only example.

• Actions that work against society

Obedience is best defined in psychology as:

• Not following the orders of an authority figure

• Not being a rebel

• Following the orders of an authority figure

• Being well behaved