AQA GCSE Psychology Social Influence

Deindividuation happens when someone loses their ___

Use an example to describe how the ‘cost of helping’ could affect bystander intervention.

Outline one factor that affects obedience.

What is meant by the term 'social loafing'?

Name one ethical issue that Asch would have needed to make special considerations for in his "Line Study" into conformity.

People in crowds may join in with anti-social behaviour because they lose their sense of personal identity and feel less responsibility for their actions. Which one of the following factors causes this?

• Deindividuation

• Social loafing

• Proximity

• Task difficulty

Select one dispositional factor and one social factor that can influence bystander intervention.

• Expertise

• Cost of Helping

• Locus of Control

• Social Hierarchy

• Social Loafing

A person who is very ​ (a)   to those in authority, or people with a higher status than them, are likely to have an authoritarian personality. These people are also likely to ‘look down’ on people they view as having inferior ​ (b)   . They are also likely to have ‘black and white’ thinking. Adorno based his theory on research that used a ​ (c)   (F-scale). He concluded that people who had ​ (d)   parenting, were more likely to have an Authoritarian Personality.

• obedient
• status
• questionnaire
• strict
• conformist
• intelligence
• case study
• gentle
• helpful
• field experiment

According to Milgram, we are more likely to ​ (a)   when we believe we are acting on behalf of an (b)   because we believe they will take ​ (c)   for our actions. When someone we believe to be a figure of authority gives us an order, we go from an (d)   to an ​ (e)   state (an agentic shift).

• authority figure
• autonomous
• responsibility
• agentic
• obey orders
• conform
• be prosocial
• inferior person
• control
• obedient

​ (a)   ​is a social factor that affects obedience

• Proximity
• Personality
• Similarity to Victim
• Social Loafing