Independent behaviour
- Created by: Lizz Griffin
- Created on: 28-04-13 14:00
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- Independent behaviour
- Explanations of inde behaviour
- 1) Locus of control
- 2) Resisting pressure to confrom
- 3) Resisting pressure to obey
- 1) Locus of Control
- Rotter measured this with questionnaire and self report method.
- Internals: Active seekers of information, achievement orientated, able to resist coercion
- Externals: Not achievement orientated, harder to resist coercion
- Evaluation relating to conformity. More internal less ocnformity
- Atgis (1998) correlation between high scoring external individuals and conformity
- The more external the individual the harder it is to resist conforming
- Shute (1975) peer pressure and drug and found that internals were less likely to conform
- 2) Resisting pressure to conform
- Situational factors
- Prior commitment
- People don't like to back track and change their answer after publicly committing to one
- Shows they're are easily coerced and influence which could be seen as a weakness
- Allies (supporter)
- Not just about the supporter but the 'quality' of them also. (Allen and Levine (1971)
- Hornsey (2003) however said when moral reasoning came into it people didn't conform showing normative influence offers a limited explanation
- Prior commitment
- Personality factors
- Confidence
- Perrin and Spencer (1981) found with engineering students that conformity was lower due to confidence in their ability
- Need for approval
- The more someone needs approval the more likely they will conform due to normative influence
- McKelvey and Karr (1988) found less conforming when with a group of friends due to less normative influence and they know and accept you already.
- Locus of control
- The more external the individual the harder it is to resist conforming
- Confidence
- Situational factors
- 3) Resisting pressure to obey
- Situational factors
- Legitimate authority
- Over phone and office stats
- Allies
- T + L variation
- Legitimate authority
- Personality factors
- Authoritarian and LOC
- Elms and Milgram (1974) found that the Pps who disobey had scores of internal LOC
- Education
- Allows us to see what happens when we blindly obey. Means we can resist in similar situations
- Moral reasoning
- Kohlberg (1969) gave Pps moral dilemmas. asked why they reacted the way they did.
- Moral reasoning over social order
- Situational factors
- Explanations of inde behaviour
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