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Essay / My Compliance Project: Thanksgiving Observation
• There were quite a few different groups. I would say there were probably 4 different groups. The youngest were divided into their own group. My older cousins were put into another group. Then my aunts and uncles were also divided into different groups. After all that, it was just me and my grandmother who didn't really fit into a group because we didn't have anyone our age there, so we were most of the "out group". I was running everywhere and chasing each other all the time. • My older cousins were talking about hunting and what had happened in their lives. • Most of my aunts were talking about what they were going to do to hunt shopping, and they were talking about their children.• My uncles, on the other hand, were walking outside on the lake after lunch, and they were talking about things that men talk about.• When people, like my grandmother or one of my aunts, the group of “young children” approaches, they generally stop running. They would remain calm until that person left. Then they would go absolutely crazy. • When different people approached my older cousins, they would briefly stop whatever they were talking about. It was only because they were polite and asked anyone who approached them how they were. Then, as soon as that person left, they would simply resume their conversation. • I haven't really noticed a difference in whether my aunts or uncles are approached by anyone, unless it's one of their children. Then sometimes they would drop whatever they were doing to go help them with something. After helping their child, they went back to doing what they did before.• The familiarity effect played a small role because a...... middle of paper...... rvations, I was able to learn a lot about groups and conformity. Before, I didn't even really understand what compliance was or what it could affect, but after observing groups for my compliance project, I understand it much better now. I now realize that conformity plays a huge role in everyday life. Compliance is why people make many of the decisions they do. It can affect the way people act or behave when a person from an "out-group" approaches their "in-group" because the person does not want to act outside the norm. Psychology plays a very important role in all of this, because conformity is about how people think and why they make the decisions they do. Psychology also helps explain why people separate into "in-groups" and "out-groups" as they do. This helps explain just about everything that has to do with compliance in general..