Social Psychology - Conformity

Which of the following word best describes conformity?

• Bias

• Follow

• normal

• authority

Changing behavior to fit n with a group is a type of _____ conformity.

• Informational

• normative

• identification

• compliance

Changing behavior to fit with a social role is a type of _____ conformity.

• Informational

• internalization

• compliance

• identification

Select an example of identification type of conformity (social role)

• A college student smokes at a party because all her friends are doing it

• Although he doesn’t like to wear a tie, he still wears it in college as it is the dress code.

• wearing exactly like her favorite lecturer in college.

• she has a habit of swearing but she does not do it in school as he is a teacher.

you are unsure about the answer to a particular question asked by lecturer, so you follows your friends answer. this is _____ conformity.

• Normative

• Informational

• Internalization

• Compliance

When the fire alarm rang in college, you don't know where to go so you follow everyone else to wherever they are going. this is _____ conformity.

• Informational

• compliance

• Identification

• internalization

Although he doesn’t like to wear a tie, he still wears it in college as it is the dress code on Mondays. this is _____ conformity.

• Informational

• compliance

• normative

• Identification

Copying another persons style is known as _____ conformity.

• Informational

• compliance

• identification

• internalization

you don't agree to the speed limit of 90km per hour but you still follow as it is the rules. this shows _____ conformity.

• Informational

• identification

• identification

• compliance