Welcome to the Social Psychology playlist from The Psychology Tutoring Academy — your go-to hub for mastering the Social Influence topic in AQA A-Level Psychology.
In this series, we cover all the key content from the AQA 3.1.1 specification, broken down into student-friendly, exam-focused lessons:
🔹 Types of Conformity: Internalisation, Identification & Compliance
🔹 Explanations for Conformity: Informational & Normative Social Influence
🔹 Variables Affecting Conformity: Group Size, Unanimity, Task Difficulty (Asch’s research)
🔹 Conformity to Social Roles: Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment
🔹 Obedience to Authority: Milgram’s Study and Situational Variables
🔹 Dispositional Explanation of Obedience: The Authoritarian Personality
🔹 Resistance to Social Influence: Social Support & Locus of Control
🔹 Minority Influence: Consistency, Commitment & Flexibility
🔹 The Role of Social Influence Processes in Social Change