Outline and evaluate explanations of conformity. (12 marks) Normative social influence says people conform because they feel they need to be accepted and belong to the group. They accept the majorities’ views publicly‚ but privately they disagree – this type of conformity is compliance. The majority control the other group members‚ and use the fear of rejection to get others to conform. This is because humans are a social species and need companionship and are afraid of rejection. Research to support
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Velasquez 5.1 and 5.5 All of your responses should be written in complete sentences. 1. Define Rationalism The view that knowledge of the world can be obtained by relying on reason without the aid of the senses. 2. Define Empiricism Knowledge about the world can be attained only through sense experience. 3. What is Induction and how does it work? How does it make use of both empiricism and rationalism? It is defined as the reliance of observations‚ generalizations and repeated confirmation.
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at some point. John F. Kennedy claimed‚ “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” When it comes to the topic of conformity‚ most of us will readily agree that individuality changes the world. Where this agreement usually ends‚ however‚ is on the question of is conformity that bad? While some are convinced that conformity is great for the world‚ others believe that conformity is the death of us. I tend to fall on the side where conformity is the death of us‚ because without individuality
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Running Head: CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE Hitler’s silent advantage? – Control of people in a totalitarian regime Laura Frei In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Psychology 130-001 January 21‚ 2015 Bev Lenihan‚ Instructor Camosun College Hitler’s silent advantage? – Control of people in a totalitarian regime People tend to follow social norms when eating and watching TV. It lies in the nature of a human being to focus on the actions of others and act in groups. This orientation on
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Conformity is a social psychological phenomenon that occurs in humans’ everyday lives‚ but oftentimes goes unrecognized. Through psychological studies such as Milgram’s prisoner experiment‚ psychologists even discovered that in some situations social pressures exert such strong pressures on conformity that people will go to extreme lengths when under its influence. Prominent examples of conformity include the pressure people have to wear similar types of clothing‚ language pressure that results in
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in such a modern and developed world‚ people would be encouraged to express their individuality and independent way of thinking‚ but is it really so? A few factors have lead me to believe otherwise; that our society‚ although not directly‚ forces conformity upon us‚ without us even realizing it. One example of that is the media. Everywhere we turn‚ we see images and messages that encourage us to act all act different‚ but they give us "tips" on what "different" and "individual" should look like
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Describing a study on conformity Conformity is a form of social influence which involves a change in a belief or behaviour in order to fit in with a particular 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. SHERIF Muzafer Sherif (1935) conducted a lab experiment study on conformity in 1935. Sherif conducted this study by putting participants in a dark room and told them
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coerce us into purchasing products. These include advertisements‚ celebrities‚ friends and family. Social influence plays a vital role in society. There are two kinds of social influence; Conformity and obedience. Conformity can also be simply defined as “yielding to group pressures” (Crutchfield‚ 1955). Conformity is the innate pressure and desire for an individual to adjust their behaviour and beliefs
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“We are half ruined by conformity‚ but we should be wholly ruined without it.” The words spoken by Charles Dudley Warner couldn’t be any more true as conformity has become as common as going to sleep after a long day of work. Throughout time people have always had different opinions on conformity. Back in the time of the Ancient Greeks‚ a playwright named Sophocles based one of his plays on the topic of conformity. The play was called Antigone and was based on a girl with a royal background who purposely
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remember your cowardice reason for acting as you did? The vast majority of people will recall saying‚ "Everybody is doing it" a sentence that is one of the worst four-word combinations in the English language. (Acknowledge/greet audience) Conformity involves the changing of one’s attitudes‚ opinions‚ or behaviours to match those of the norms’. The "norms"‚ established by society‚ are what we should or ought to be thinking‚ feeling‚ or doing if we wish to be accepted into a group. This desire
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