Milestone 4 - Group Behavior and Conformity Psy 200
Milestone 4 Assessment
Submit a document answering each of the following questions.
Each answer should be 200-250 words long and refer specifically to content from this section with in-text citations*.
You should NOT be using any external resources.
- Describe a time when you conformed to the opinions or behaviors of others. Interpret the conformity in terms of the concepts discussed in this section.
- Provide an example of someone who has each of the types of power discussed in this section.
- What are your opinions about the COVID pandemic? Consider and discuss how social psychological research may inform your interpretations of this event.
- Discuss an example where your resisted or had trouble with conformity. Discuss what factors influenced that resistance (personal, gender, culture, psychological reactance)
*For this class, you can reference text excerpts like this: (Jhangiani & Tarry 2022).
All text excerpts are from Jhangiani, R., & Tarry, H. (2022). If there is a quote or reference within a text excerpt; you include both the original author and year and the author and year of the work where quote/idea was found in the in-text reference. Add "as cited in" before the author in the in-text reference. For example - (Deutsch & Gerard, 1955, as cited in Jhangiani & Tarry, 2022).
Mini lectures/Key Takeaways like this:
(Leduc, Summer 2026)
And videos like this
(Titleof Video, Youtube 2026)