PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Solomon Asch, Minority Influence, Peer Pressure
7 Nov 2013
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Social norms: unspoken but shares rules of conduct within a particular formal or informal group. Conformity: changes in our behavior/opinion to meet perceived group norms. Compliance: behavior that is caused by a direct request. Obedience: behavior that is produced by the commands of a authority figure. Two kinds of social norms: descriptive norms. Describes how people behave in a given situation. For example: on many university campuses students follow a variety of descriptive norms of behavior like how they spend saturday nights, what types of clothes they should wear: injunctive norms. Describe how people ought to do in a given situation, meaning the type of behavior that is approved of in the situation. People acquire norms when they are in a new situations. Pluralistic ignorance: a type of norm misperception that occurs when each individual in the group privately rejects the group"s norms but believes that others accept these norms.
