68 PsychSim 5: Everybody’s Doing It! PsychSim 5: EVERYBODY’S DOING IT! Name: Section: B29 Date: This activity explores the issue of social influence—how the behavior of other people affects your behavior. Social Influence • What is conformity? Conformity is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group.
He believes our minds have been altered to expect all information the way the Net hands it out: “in a swiftly stream of moving particles,” as he put it. The author admits that the advantages of the internet are great, but believes they come at a great
My first thought was that the patient might be in severe pain even though he rated the pain as 5/10 on the pain scale of 1-10. Upon standing order from the physician, I gave pain control medications and waited for the hear rate to slow down. Shortly after giving the medication, the patient's heart rate increased above 150's and he started to complain of his heart pounding fast. He ended up with a Rapid Response Code. Then only I understood that patient is running an event of SVT.
To determine the amount of support for school uniform policies, many of the schools had polled parents (82%), school staff (66%), students (47%), other schools (45%) and the community (32%) (NAESP, 2000). Lumsden and Miller stated in their results that “75% of parents and 89% of staff supported uniforms and believed they decreased violence, theft, and gang activity” (Lumsden and Miller, 2002, p. 2). They also noted that only 15% of the students supported the use of school uniforms, and almost 60% of the students admitted that uniforms helped administrators identify intruders on campus. Parents, teachers, and students also agreed that wearing school uniforms would “place all students on an equal level” (Lumsden & Miller, 2002, p. 2). Repeatedly, parents and school personnel supported the use of uniforms in the schools and those that choose to incorporate a uniform policy worked hard at being pro-active in setting up the policy.
To be effective the rewards must be desired by the target group e.g. financial inducements. * Legitimate power – generally known as authority and implies the power to act as well as the power over resources and is invariably limited in some way. * Expert power – which comes from possessing specialist knowledge and skills and is dependent on the expertise being recognised by those concerned, thus credibility is vital otherwise no one will take any notice. * Referent power – generally known as personal power or charisma and comes from the high regard the individual is held by others should this falter or wane then this form of power vanishes, but is often employed in conjunction with other sources.
Society’s view on certain groups of people has changed with time, but the way people perceive and stereotype others shows conformity to what others feel is correct or acceptable, although those perceptions may or may not be true. Stereotypes are these images or generalizations that have been given to groups of people to portray the way society views their actions, standard of living, or even the type person they are. These views of certain groups are merely just opinions or generalizations and do not represent all the people justly and can cause misconceptions of a person’s ability, personality, or just as a person as a whole. Of those misconceptions on certain stereotypes, the Hispanics have been portrayed as this figure in society that is seen as a lazy group not willing to work. Through research and what is seen in today’s world we see this stereotype being thrown around attempting to classify Hispanics, where in reality we see a growing number of Hispanics in the workforce.
What seems to be obvious might not be true at all. Conventional wisdom can be considered as convenient. Some people would rather believe what others tell them to believe because it might be safer to be politically correct. Some people don’t have to worry about figuring it out because it has already been figured out for them. The major problem with conventional wisdom is that is difficult to prove otherwise because it is already fixed in people’s
Outline and evaluate explanations of conformity (12 marks) Conformity is where one changes their decision/opinion from the influence of or pressure from other people. This pressure can be real of imaginative. The ‘majority influence’ can play a big role in changing a person or a small groups behaviour. There are two types of conformity, compliance (other wise none as shallow conformity) and internalization (other wise none as deep conformity). The difference is that compliance is when someone conforms out loud with the views or behaviour but secretly disagrees.
I prefer not to be touched so much. Some people feel disrespected to be greeted with a left hand, when it my be acceptable in another culture. There are so many examples of how individuals want to be treated differently that I could go on listing them, but I wont. I will, however touch on the fact that some people think that that they deserve more then they actually do. It may be unfair to be required to treat a peer like royalty simply because he or she feels entitled to such.
They also struggled with understanding the difference between their ‘best alternative’ and the lens assigned ‘best alternative’. Ethical lenses adopted by individuals tend to influence decision making by affecting how problems and conflicts are approached. Your ethical lens of preference makes you ‘blind’ to the other approaches and makes it difficult to see the benefits of the other lenses and weaknesses of your own lens. This adds tension to groups because what seems like the best solution to a problem to a single team member might be completely inappropriate to another. The team found that these different approaches can create more issues within a team or group if you don’t understand that everyone has their own ‘right approach.’ To a rights and responsibilities lens approaching an issue head on and dealing with the conflict directly might not be fun, but it is necessary in order to move past the problem in the most efficient way possible.