Question

Nora has decided to visit the new community recreation center for a swim. As she enters the change room she notices both of the two other people present put their shoes into a locker. Before she walks out to the pool she does the same. What concept helps explain her actions?

Answer 1

Answer:    Informational influence

Explanation:  Information influence is about accepting new information that, as such, and adopted by us as accurate, influences our thinking and behaviour. This kind of information is also relevant to the environment, that is, when we find ourselves, for example, in a new community centre, we adopt the already established behaviour of that environment as accurate and relevant, but not without our consent.  Only because we think that on the basis of that new information we acquire habits and behaviours that are correct, or because we want to gain knowledge that we agree is relevant.

In a word, Nora accepted certain behaviour that she may not have practised before, so she may have even modified her behaviour, because on the basis of influential information, she agreed to behave as she had seen, heard, experienced.