Accession Number:

AD0610404

Title:

DESCRIPTIVE MODELS OF SOCIAL RESPONSE.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

WASHINGTON UNIV ST LOUIS MO

Personal Author(s):

• Willis,Richard H.

Report Date:

1964-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

27.0

Abstract:

A general approach to models of social approach is developed that leads to the construction of a variety of models, each appropriate to a particular class of situation in this development, the approach is abandoned that constructs models of increasing generality. The general method is based on the following guidelines maintain a clear distinction between description and explanation, honoring the priority of the former at the descriptive level, maintain a distinction between congruence and movement as criteria of social response and accept the task of constructing suitable models for each criterion. Models of social response, identifiable in the literature, are surveyed as follows conformity-nonconformity nonconformity-conformity-nonconformity conformityindependence conformity-independence-boomerang conformity-independence-counterformity conformityindependence-anticonformity and the diamond model a refinement of the one proceeding. The general method of model construction is applied to the following cases 1 two-response alternatives, with the correct alternative the same on all trials or varying from trial to trial and 2 three-response alternatives, with either the correct alternative varying from trial to trial, or the same on all trials with either a correct end category or mid-category. A hypothetical numerical example is provided.

Descriptors:

• *GROUP DYNAMICS
• PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
• SOCIOMETRICS
• PERSONALITY
• REACTION(PSYCHOLOGY)
• BEHAVIOR

Subject Categories:

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE