2023-2025 Year 12 A-Level Psychology Social Influence: Types of Conformity
This flashcard set focuses on the different types of conformity in Social Influence. It helps students distinguish between compliance and identification, explaining how each reflects varying levels of internal and external agreement with group norms.
What type of conformity is the least permanent and most superficial?
Compliance
Key Terms
What type of conformity is the least permanent and most superficial?
Compliance
What type of conformity is a stronger type of conformity, involving private as well as public change in beliefs and behaviours?
Identification
What type of conformity is the deepest and most permanent change?
Internalisation
What type of conformity results in a public but not private behaviour change?
Compliance
What type of conformity results in a public but not private behaviour change?
Compliance
What type of conformity is linked to NSI?
Compliance
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
What type of conformity is the least permanent and most superficial? | Compliance |
What type of conformity is a stronger type of conformity, involving private as well as public change in beliefs and behaviours? | Identification |
What type of conformity is the deepest and most permanent change? | Internalisation |
What type of conformity results in a public but not private behaviour change? | Compliance |
What type of conformity results in a public but not private behaviour change? | Compliance |
What type of conformity is linked to NSI? | Compliance |
Compliance is linked to which explanation of conformity? | NSI |
What happens to public & private behaviour during compliance? | Public behaviour change but revert back in private |
What level of conformity is compliance? | Most superficial & least permanent |
What type of conformity is the following: When Jenny is with her vegetarian friends she agrees that eating meat is harmful to the environment. However, when she goes home she eats meat every night for her tea. | Compliance |
What type of conformity is where individuals look to a group for guidance and adjust their behaviour because they want to belong to the group? | Identification |
What type of conformity is when we conform due to wanting to become a member of the group? | Identification |
What type of conformity is where individuals publicly and privately change their behaviours and beliefs to be in line with a group? | Internalisation |
What type of conformity is where an individual accepts the group’s beliefs into their own cognitions? | Internalisation |
What type of conformity is where individuals publicly but not privately change their behaviours and beliefs to go along with a group? | Compliance |
What type of conformity is linked to ISI? | Internalisation |
What type of conformity is the following: When Jenny goes to University, she decides to become a Vegan because her best friends are vegan. Even when she goes home in the summer holidays, she will only eat Vegan food. However, when Jenny leaves University and becomes a Lawyer her work friends are vegetarian and Jenny changes her beliefs and diet to be accepted by her new work friends. | Identification |
What type of conformity is the following: When Jenny goes to University, she decides to become a Vegan because her best friends are vegan. Even when she goes home in the summer holidays, she will only eat Vegan food. However, when Jenny leaves University and becomes a Lawyer she continues to only eat Vegan food because she believes this is right for the environment. | Internalisation |
During identification, why do individuals change their beliefs & behaviours? | As we want to become a member of the group |
What type of conformity is this; Conforming to the behaviour of a role model / adopting a role within the group | Identification |
What type of conformity occurs when an individual looks to a group for guidance? | Identification |
What type of conformity occurs when an individual changes their behaviours and beliefs to go along with a group? | Compliance |
What type of conformity occurs when an individual changes their behaviours and beliefs to be in line with a group? | Internalisation |