PS270 Study Guide - Final Guide: Relative Deprivation, Content Analysis, Social Cognition
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Conformity: a change in behavior or belief caused by real or imagined social pressure: public compliance, private compliance. Obedience: changes in behavior in response to the commands of an authority figure. Example: lt. william calley and the my lai massacre. Bad conformity: when it leads to someone drinking and driving. Good conformity: when it inhibits people from cutting in front of us in a theatre line. Inconsequencel conformity: when it disposes tennis players to wear white. *key is will your behavior and beliefs be the same when you are apart from a group. Compliance: conformity that involves publicly acting in accord with social pressure while privately disagreeing. Obedience: acting in accord with a direct order. Example: comply to reap an award or avoid a punishment. Acceptance: conformity that involves both acting and believing in accord with social pressures. Participants judged which of three comparison lines matched the standard line.
