Social Influence

Conformity: Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group's standard

      Conditions That Strengthen Conformity       
1.) One is made to feel incompetent

2.) The group is at least three people

3.) The group is unanimous

4.) One admires the group's status

5.) One had made no prior commitment

6.) The person is observed

                   Reasons for Conformity
Normative Social Influence: Influemce resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid dissappointment

Infomational Social Influemce: Influence resulting from one's willingness to aceept other's opinions about reality

Social Facilitation: Improved performance of tasks in the presence of others
-Occurs with simple or well learned tasks

Social Loafing: the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling efforts toward a common goal than if they were individually accountable

Deindividuation: the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occuring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity

Group Polarization: The concept that a group's attitude is one of extremes and rarely moderate

Groupthink: The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides common sense

Self-fulling Prophecies: occurs when one person's belief about others leads one to act in ways that induce the others to appear to confirm the belief