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Part A
Objective: Recognize characteristics of informational social influence.
After checking into a hotel, Emma suddenly hears pounding on her door. A man in a uniform is standing there telling her there’s smoke on a lower floor and the electricity is possibly going to shut off. She should prop her door open and evacuate as quickly as possible. Later, Emma returns to find that her laptop and jewelry have been stolen. She has fallen victim to informational social influence.
Based on your understanding of informational social influence, outline and explain the four (4) factors and conditions that encouraged Emma to conform.
Part B
Objective: Describe the need to be accepted in the context of normative social influence.
- Based on Schachter’s “Johnny Rocco” study, describe three (3) stages involved in persuading “rebels” to conform to group norms.
- Describe an instance in your life when you were persuaded to adopt or reject group norms.
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Running head: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Social psychology
Based on your understanding of informational social influence, outline and explain the four
(4) factors and conditions that encouraged Emma to conform.
Informational Social Influence is a psychological situation in which an individual accepts
the actions and decisions of others with the assumption that the persons have the correct position
regarding the situation. In these circumstances, the individuals are incapable determining the
correct decisions or the most appropriate course of behavior or reaction, and that is influenced
partially by the fact that the victims feel the other parties have the correct information (Rader et
al, 2017). In most instances, the informational social influence leads people to make decisions
that in the long run turn out to be improper. In the case of Emma, when she was informed that
she had to vacate the room due to the impending fire outbreak, she believed what she was being
told and left immediately. It was when she came back when she discovered that the decision
which she had taken was not the best and she had in the long suffered losses. With regards to the
informational social influence, the following are some of the factors that could have necessitated
Emma to conform to the command;
Uncertainty about the correct action- one of the factors that compelled Emma to conform
to the demands of the stranger was uncertainty about the correct course of action (Muchnik et al,
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