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PSYC 300 Conformity
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| compliance | acting in accordance to others without necessarily agreeing with the associated belief/attitude |
| acceptance | changing your behavior and beliefs in a sincere fashion |
| obedience | doing something you wouldn't do otherwise largely because someone else directly ordered you to do so |
| asch study | identified the power of conformity through the identification of lines in a group setting |
| milgram study | incorporated factors such as a present authority figure, a distant victim and the foot-in-the-door phenomenon among others to determine the extent to which participants are willing to conform |
| normative influence | a change in belief or behavior due to the desire to be accepted by others |
| informational social influence | modification of thoughts and actions as a result of the acquisition of evidence about reality |
| reflections on classical studies* | showed how compliance > moral sense succeeded in pressure to betray conscience sensitized us to moral conflict in daily life affirmed like between behavior and attitudes and the power of the situation |
| unanimity | exemplifies power of overwhelming majority and first dissenter |
| public behavior | degree of privacy influences conformity |
| social status | perceivable authority influences conformity |
| cohesion | the strength of the relational ties within a group affects levels of conformity |
| group size | density and packaging influences conformity |
| reactance | behaving in ways that directly oppose pressure to conform for the protection of sense of freedom |
| conformity | change in behaviors or beliefs as a result of real or imagined pressure |