The Social Approach

Going along with a group because you don’t want to be rejected is known as

• Normative social influence

• Informational social influence

Going along with a group because you think they are right is known as

• Normative social influence

• Informational social influence

The types of conformity are

• Compliance, identification and bias

• Compliance, identification and internalisation

• Compliance, fundamental attribution error and internalisation

• Priming, identification and internalisation

The strongest type of conformity is

• Compliance

• Identification

• Internalisation

The weakest type of conformity is

• Compliance

• Identification

• Internalisation

This type of conformity is genuine, but temporary

• Compliance

• Identification

• Internalisation

Which of the following is a weakness of the research supporting conformity?

• Asch showed researcher bias

• It used only male, American participants (poor genralisability

• Is was conducted in an artificial environment (low ecological validity)

• There was no control group

Which of the following is a negative effect of stereotyping?

• Can lead to prejudice and discrimination

• Can distort and bias our social judgements

• Can affect behaviour negatively because they are self fulfilling

• All of these

True or false:

A positive effect of stereotyping is that they can simplify our interactions with others, this saves time and cognitive processing effort

• True

• False

Which of the following is not a part of self concept

• Self image

• Self esteem

• Confidence

• Self efficacy