AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Obedience involves an order; conformity involves a request. Obedience is obeying someone with a higher status; conformity is going along with people of equal status. Obedience relies on social power; conformity relies on the need to be socially accepted.

Detailed explanation-2: -Conformity is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group. This change is in response to real (involving the physical presence of others) or imagined (involving the pressure of social norms / expectations) group pressure.

Detailed explanation-3: -conformity, the process whereby people change their beliefs, attitudes, actions, or perceptions to more closely match those held by groups to which they belong or want to belong or by groups whose approval they desire.

Detailed explanation-4: -Socialization is a primary source of conforming and obedient behavior, including obedience to law. Deviant behavior violates social norms.