SPECIFICATION:

• Types of conformity: internalisation, identification and compliance. 

• Explanations for conformity: informational social influence and normative social influence, and variables affecting conformity including group size, unanimity and task difficulty as investigated by Asch.

• Conformity to social roles as investigated by Zimbardo.

• Explanations for obedience include the agentic state and legitimacy of authority, situational variables affecting obedience, including proximity and location, as investigated by Milgram, and uniform.

• The dispositional explanation for obedience is the Authoritarian Personality.

• Explanations of resistance to social influence, including social support and locus of control.

• Minority influence includes reference to consistency, commitment and flexibility.

• The role of social influence processes in social change.