SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Malik has had a series of dogs over the years. Each has learned to curl up at his feet when he watches television.
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Renee buys the same brand of sweatshirt that most of the kids in her school are wearing.
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Jonah makes sure to arrive home before his curfew because he knows he will be grounded if he doesn’t.
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Yuri makes sure to arrive home before her curfew because she does not want her parents to be disappointed in her.
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Terry cranks it up a notch during volleyball practice because the team captain has been on her case for not showing enough effort.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The right answer is B. B. Explanation: By buying the same brand of sweatshirt as the kids in her school, Renee is adjusting her behavior towards a group standard, more precisely the standard of the kids in her school.
Detailed explanation-2: -Normative Conformity This type of conformity involves changing one’s behavior in order to fit in with a group. For example, a teenager might dress in a certain style because they want to look like their peers who are members of a particular group.
Detailed explanation-3: -Harvard psychologist Herbert Kelman identified three major types of conformity: compliance, identification, and internalization. Compliance is public conformity, while possibly keeping one’s own original beliefs independent.
Detailed explanation-4: -Effects of Conformity In some cases of conformity, a person’s desire to fit in with a social group can interfere with the ability to make moral or safe decisions. One example is when a person drinks and drives because friends do it, or because friends assure that person he or she can safely do so.
Detailed explanation-5: -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. Conformity has important social implications and continues to be actively researched.