AQA GCSE Psychology: Social Influence Topic Bundle

This contains all 12 lessons in the Social Influence topic for AQA GCSE Psychology. It also contains a Homework booklet, a Starter booklet and the entire Social Influence Workbooklet.

Conformity

Identification and explanation of how social factors (group size, anonymity and task difficulty) and dispositional factors (personality, expertise) affect conformity to majority influence.

Asch’s study of conformity.

Obedience

Milgram’s Agency theory of social factors affecting obedience including agency, authority, culture and proximity.

Explanation of dispositional factors affecting obedience including Adorno’s theory of the Authoritarian Personality.

Prosocial behaviour

Bystander behaviour: identification and explanation of how social factors (presence of others and the cost of helping) and dispositional factors (similarity to victim and expertise) affect bystander intervention.

Piliavin’s subway study.

Crowd and collective behaviour

Prosocial and antisocial behaviour in crowds: identification and explanation of how social factors (social loafing, deindividuation and culture) and dispositional factors (personality and morality) affect collective behaviour.