AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Normative social influence. influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval. Informational social influence. influence resulting from one’s willingness to accept others’ opinions about reality.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sometimes people behave in ways just to gain approval from others, even if they don’t necessarily believe in what they are doing. This is normative social influence–influence resulting in the desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval.

Detailed explanation-3: -Normative Social Influence: influence from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disproval.

Detailed explanation-4: -Definition. Normative influence refers to the fact that people sometimes change their behavior, thoughts, or values to be liked and accepted by others. This results in conformity, in the form of individuals altering their utterances or demeanor to be more like what they perceive to be the norm.

Detailed explanation-5: -Normative social influence involves a change in behaviour that is deemed necessary in order to fit in a particular group. The need for a positive relationship with the people around leads us to conformity.