SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE
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Question
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People conform because they want to copy others
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people conform because they want to be liked by others
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people conform without thinking about it
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sherif’s work suggested that our knowledge of the world was influenced by others in the absence of objective cues. Asch suggested that even with the physical cues, our perception of the world is coloured by others (or at least our verbal behaviour regarding the perception of the world is coloured by the group).
Detailed explanation-2: -The experiment concluded that people conform for two main reasons: they want to fit in with the group (normative influence) and because they believe the group is more informed than they are (informational influence). Asch, S. E. (1951).
Detailed explanation-3: -Another difference between the two experiments was that Asch had control over his participants and Sherif had none. The effect of this was that the results could show conformity clearly as it was evidently definable conformity was occurring whereas Sherif’s results were in ranges that followed a norm.
Detailed explanation-4: -Out of this study, Asch identified two types of conformity: informative conformity, when people believe that they were wrong and the rest of the group was right, and normative conformity, when people believe that they are correct but go along with the group to fit in.