Psychology AS: Social Influence Revision

Course Specification (AQA)

-Types of Conformity: Internalisation, Identification and Compliance.

-Explanations for Conformity: Informational Social influence and Normative Social Influence and variables affecting conformity as investigated by Asch.

-Conformity to Social Roles: Zimbardo's study.

-Explanations For Obedience: Agentic State and legitimacy of authority, situational variables affecting obedience as investigated by Milgram, dispositional explanation for obedience (the Authoritarian Personality).

-Explanations Of Resistance to Social Change: Social Support and Locus Of Control.

-Minority Influence: Consistency, Commitment and Flexibility

-The Role Of Social Influence Processes in Social Change