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WorksheetsSocial Influence Lesson 18 Social Change
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Minorities can cause cognitive conflict. What does this mean?
Majorities who hear the minority view change their opinion
Minorities make majority group members think more deeply about the issue being challenged
People who are exposed to two different messages can never decide what to do
Majorities need to be consistent in order to be effective
What are the three minority behavioural styles that bring about social change?
Consistency
Proximity
Legitimacy
Snowball
Flexibility
Social Support
Commitment
Consistency
Flexibility
Flexibility
Legitimacy
Consistency
If a minority appears willing to suffer for their views, they are seen as more committed and so taken more seriously by others. This is known as...
The aggressive principle
The argumentative principle
The authoritarian principle
The augmentation principle
Minorities can bring about social change through
Drawing attention to an issue
The augmentation principle
The snowball effect
The agentic shift
The authoritatrian personality
Having a legitimate authority
Normative social influence
Informational social influence
The augmentation principle
The snowball effect
Nomative social influence
The potential for minorities to influence social change is often limited because they are seen as what in the eyes of the majority?
Disinterested
Disengaged
Deviant
Devout
A example of a social norm intervention is
Everyone does not drink and drive
Most people do not drink and drive
You must not drink and drive
No one drinks and drives
Schultz et al (2007) found that a problem with the social norm intervention approach is that while it makes people who do engage in the unwanted behaviour reduce this behaviour, it also make people who were better than the average on the unwanted behaviour increase the unwanted behaviour. What is this called?
The boomerang effect
The agentic shift
Minority influence
The rebound effect
Minority influence is especially effective because:
It involves supporting strange and unusual causes
People are forced to think more deeply about the issues
No one likes to think they are part of a mindless herd
A small group of people appears unthreatening
Consistency in the minority position is effective because:
It highlights the complacency of the majority
It increases the amount of interest from the majority
Most people have a need to be consistent in their views
A bickering minority attracts mre attention and support
Flexibility in the minority position is needed because:
Consistency alone can be a negative thing and off-putting
It shows that the minority isn't really all that bothered
It allows the majrity to get its own way, so they are more likely to agree
None of the above
Minority influence can lead to which kind of conformity
Compliance
Identification
Internalisation
Informational
Once social change has occurred, its origins are forgotten by the majority in a process called:
Social cryptoamnesia
Flexibility
Gradual commitment
Internalisation
Conformity to the majority can sometimes create social change through the operation of:
Augmentation
The snowball effect
Social proof
Normative social influence
The augmentation principle in minority influence refers to
How a source of social change is eventually forgotten
How members of the minority make personal sacrifices
The attention that the minority attracts from the majority
The deeper processing of the minority view by the majority
The way in which a minority view becomes the new norm of the majority can be explained by
Compliance
Social proof
Consistency
The snowball effect
