Situational factors

Situational factors are:

• All about the brain

• Are internal factors such as our personality influence the way we behave

• Are external factors such as the influence of other people that influence the way we behave

• Irrelevant

Majority influence is when:

• We stick to our own ideas

• the behaviors or beliefs of a larger (majority) group of individuals influences the behaviors or beliefs of a smaller group.

• The behaviors and beliefs of someone who has more power than us influences our behavior

• Nothing happens

Which of these statements about conformity is incorrect?

• There is only one way that the majority can influence people to conform

• People may outwardly change their behavior but maintain their own opinion

• People can change their outward behavior and personal opinions

• Situational factors affect how likely we are to conform

Normative conformity is:

• Disagreeing

• When they go along with the group norm or idea

• When people are normal

• When people go against the group norm or idea

Which one of these examples show normative conformity

• Googling the answer to make sure you are right

• Disagreeing with all your friends because you believe that Tom Holland is the best Spiderman and they all think the best Spiderman is Andrew Garfield.

• Agreeing with Miss Gearing, Miss Tutton and Mr Sogaard that Dairy milk is better than Galaxy even though you privately prefer Galaxy

Complete the results of Asch's studies:

The tendency (likeliness) to conform :

• Increases with the size of the majority, but there is a point where the size of the majority makes little difference

• Always increase with the size of the majority.

• Is not affected by the size of the majority.

• Decreases with the size of the majority, but there is a point where the size of the majority makes little difference

What is a confederate?

• Someone who does an experiment

• Someone who messes up the data

• Someone who works with the participant to help them do the experiment

• An undercover assistant for the experimenter who poses as a participant but whose behavior is rehearsed prior to the experiment

Which statement is false?

• Culture affects behaviour

• Norms affect behaviour

• Crowds make us more conscious of what we are doing

• Deindividuation is the loss of a sense of individual identity when we are in a crowd.

Which statement on authority figures and obedience is incorrect?

• The more authority a person has, the more obedience they command

• Autonomous state is when an individual feels responsible for their own actions

• Agentic state is where someone acts as an agent and so feel that their authority figure is responsible for their actions

• Authority figures do not have the ability to punish people

A criticism of situational factors is:

• They explain lots of behaviour

• They do account for individual differences

• Not everyone conforms in the same way

• The factors are wrong