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AQA Psychology
Social Influence
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Social Influence | the effect other people have on our behaviour. This includes conformity, obedience and social loafing for example. |
| Conformity | a change in a person's behaviour or opinions as the result of group pressure |
| Obedience | following the orders of someone we believe to have authority |
| Socialisation | the way we are raised to behave and the things we are taught to accept as normal |
| Buffer | something that creates distance between the teacher and learner (e.g a wall or another person administering the shocks) |
| Deindividuation | the state of losing our sense of individuality and becoming less aware of our own responsibility for our actions |
| Anonymous | being able to keep our identity hidden |
| Mundane realism | an everyday situation that is life-like and not artificial |
| Social loafing | putting less effort into doing something when you are with others doing the same thing |
| Culture | a group of people (usually living in one place) who share similar customs, beliefs and behaviour. |
| Diffusion of responsibility | in a group of people there is less need for the individual to act because someone else who is present could also do something |
| Empathy | being able to put yourself in someone else's position psychologically and understand how that person is feeling |
| Altruism | helping someone without thinking of yourself, sometimes at a great cost |
| Bystander apathy | doing nothing in an emergency when someone is in need of help |
| Practical implications | suggestions about behaviour in the real world beyond the research study, based upon what psychologists have discovered |