Personal Development

Quarter 2 – Module 5:
Social Influence

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Module 5
Personal Development
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Quarter 2 – Module 5: Social Influence
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Personal Development
Quarter 2 – Module 5:
Social Influence
Introductory Message
This Self-Learning Module (SLM) is prepared so that you, our dear learners,
can continue your studies and learn while at home. Activities, questions, directions,
exercises, and discussions are carefully stated for you to understand each lesson.

Each SLM is composed of different parts. Each part shall guide you step-by-
step as you discover and understand the lesson prepared for you.

Pre-tests are provided to measure your prior knowledge on lessons in each

SLM. This will tell you if you need to proceed on completing this module or if you
need to ask your facilitator or your teacher’s assistance for better understanding of
the lesson. At the end of each module, you need to answer the post-test to self-check
your learning. Answer keys are provided for each activity and test. We trust that you
will be honest in using these.

In addition to the material in the main text, Notes to the Teacher are also
provided to our facilitators and parents for strategies and reminders on how they can
best help you on your home-based learning.

Please use this module with care. Do not put unnecessary marks on any part
of this SLM. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises and tests. And
read the instructions carefully before performing each task.

If you have any questions in using this SLM or any difficulty in answering the
tasks in this module, do not hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator.

Thank you.
 What I Need to Know

This module is designed and written to help you understand the concepts about
social influence affecting social relationships. The scope of this module can be used
in different learning situations. The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary
level of students. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the
course. But the order in which you read them can be changed to correspond with
the textbook you are now using.

The module focuses on social influence that enables the learner to compare
one’s perception of himself/herself and how others see him/her.
EsP-PD11/12SR-IIc-10.2

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Explain concepts of perception and social influence and relate it to real life;
2. Examine the relevance of self-perception and others’ perception for one’s
development; and
3. Value the significance of social influence in developing one’s self.

What I Know

Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your chosen letter on a separate
sheet of paper.

1. It occurs when an individual changes his/her behavior to adapt to social

demands.
A. Social Influence C. Social Relationship
B. Social Facilitation D. Personal Relationship

2. It is the change in one’s behavior to be more like the others in the group.
A. Obedience C. Compliance
B. Conformity D. Complement

3. It is the change in one’s behavior by doing a request asked by another

individual in exchange for reward or punishment.
A. Conformity C. Complacent
B. Compliance D. Complement

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4. It is the change in one’s behavior by following the demand given by the
individuals you respect.
A. Objective
B. Obedience
C. Conformity
D. Compliance

5. It happens to a person in order to perform better at working with others

than working alone.
A. Social Change
B. Social Loafing
C. Social Influence
D. D. Social Facilitation

6. Which of the following characterizes a conforming individual?

A. Likes reward
B. Gains approval
C. Fears punishment
D. Accepts responsibility

7. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a conforming individual?

A. Gains approval
B. Avoids rejection
C. Accepts opinion
D. Accepts responsibility

8. Which of the following characterizes a compliant individual?

A. Likes reward
B. Accepts opinions
C. Respects authority
D. Accepts responsibility

9. Which of the following characterizes an obedient individual?

A. Accepts opinion
B. Avoids rejection
C. Fears punishment
D. Respects authority

10.Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an obedient individual?

A. Follows order
B. Avoids rejection
C. Respects authority
D. Accepts responsibility

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1 2.-15. Identify the type of social influence being described in the following
situations. Write A for Conformity, B for Compliance, and C for
Obedience.
12. Sierra greets her grandmother’s friend to show respect.
13. Edward posted on social media positive remarks about his peers.
14. Alicia is motivated to receive a high grade after answering all the test
items correctly.
15. Armand joins a group to support advocacy for responsible citizenship.

Notes to the Teacher

Encourage the learners to study the content and accomplish the
following activities in What’s In, What’s More, What’s New, What I Can
Do, and Additional Activities. These may be presented in the form of
infographics as illustrated below.

What’s In What’s More

tagline
What’s New What I Can Do

tagline

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 Lesson

52 Social Influence

It is necessary as a maturing adolescent, you are aware of your strengths

and weaknesses, which your thoughts, feelings, and behavior define on how you
deal with personal relationships. In the previous module, you were able to
distinguish the various roles of different individuals in society. While in this
module, it focuses on how social influences improve you as a person for social
transformation in dealing with others and any setting.

What’s In

Write inside the bar graph the names of the most and least influential
individuals in your lifetime. On the longer bar, write the names of the most
influential person and on the shorter bar, write the names of the least influential
person in your life. Use the second quadrant of your paper (as illustrated on page
10) to present your data.

After knowing the most influential or the least influential individuals in your
life, examine how they affect your behavior and growth. How do they influence you
as a maturing adolescent?

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 What’s New

Write constructive positive and negative comments for improvement process

about yourself that you received from other people using the pie graph below. Use
the third quadrant of your paper to present your data.

Self-Feedback Others Feedback

Process Questions:

1. Why is feedback important in improving one’s strengths and weaknesses?

2. How do you compare your self-perception to others’ perception about you?

What is It

In the first activity, you were able to identify the influential persons in your
life. While in the second activity, you were able to reflect on the information you
received from others as well as how you think of yourself. This psychological process
is referred to as perception. It occurs through knowing, interpreting, and learning
information that influences your behavior. The way you perceive others as well as
how others perceive you are driven by beliefs, values, and norms learned and shared
through interactions within your family members, friends, neighbors, and other
individuals in the society. These experiences help you to improve how you perceive
yourself and others in any situation. As you mature, personal and social
relationships broaden your perception about yourself and others. This accepting
behavior of yours like appreciating and respecting others’ thoughts, feelings, and
actions towards you is part of social influence as a process.

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 Social influence is characterized by a change in your behavior caused by the
people that empower you to adjust to a particular situation. Whether someone
agrees or disagrees with you, it influences your behavior that may help or hinder
your social roles. Social influence also happens when you change your behavior to
adapt to social demands. Social influence is categorized by conformity, compliance,
and obedience.

Conformity is changing your behavior to be the same with the others in the
group (Asch 1955 in Ramirez 2020). For example, when you visit your friend’s home,
to show respect, you both ask for the grandmother’s blessing because you were told
that it is courtesy. This situation engages you to deal with it by adapting to the
shared norms and values to gain social approval rather than rejection. You were
able to conform to the group standards.

Figure1. Types of Social Influence

Illustrated by: Gilbert Esguerra

Compliance is granting a request or demand asked by another individual in

exchange of either a reward or a punishment. For example, during examination day,
you are required to take the test to finish the grading period and failure to do so may
result in a failing grade.

Obedience means changing your behavior to follow the demand given by an

authority or an adult you have high regards with. For instance, as a maturing
adolescent, you want to contribute to development through inviting other friends to
exercise proper waste disposal. Whether you do it purposely as you try to give the
leader your respect or purposefully as it empowers you to participate actively as a
follower. Whatever your reason is for obeying; it leads to social facilitation. This
happens when you are given a sense of responsibility that allows you to perform
better if you are with other individuals.

Given these three situations, you can choose to conform, to comply, or to

obey depending on how well you perceive yourself and others; likewise, how others
perceive you. These are all important in personal development.

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 Comparing your self-perception with others’ perception of you has
contributed to your thoughts that influence your behavior. These significant persons
in your lives help you in becoming a successful leader and follower through social
relationships. In any relationship, communication is important as you listen to what
others are telling you, and as to understand yourself and others in any situation. It
influences your outlook in life, like when you were in your formative years - you
have a limited capacity of acknowledging what is happening around you. More so,
you are not aware of how other people treated or thought about you. There were
also times when adults always asked you what you want to be when you grow up.
While, as you grow, as a maturing adolescent you conceive new thoughts, feelings
and behavior based on your experiences which form new perceptions that influence
you in dealing with others, in handling your problems, and in making right
decisions.

To help you understand this more, let us apply the principle of sowing and
reaping to your everyday life. One example of sowing is when you decided to cooperate
with your group mates with whom you were able to share your ideas to complete the
task; while reaping is when your group was able to submit and present an innovative
output so your teacher and classmates can give their feedback to compliment it. At
the start, you benefit from the feedback you received which eventually led you to
assert influence. Significantly, you are becoming responsible for your thoughts and
behaviors as you adapt to the needs of the situations in the same manner that you
have self-control that empowers you to regulate your behavior to make positive
choices in life.

The change in your behavior therefore enhances your role in becoming a

follower and a leader. Both these roles involve responsibility to serve others that can
be achieved through cooperation. Hence, a change in mindset is being mindful and
sensitive to your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

What’s More

Shade all boxes that contains a statement reflecting your behavior. Answer
the Myself column based on how you perceive yourself, while in the Others column,
based on how others see you (you may ask someone from your family which of the
following statements apply to you). Use the first quadrant of your paper to present
your bar graph.

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 Myself Others Myself Others Myself Others
Gains Gains Accepts Accepts
Likes reward Likes reward
Approval approval responsibility responsibility
avoids avoids fears fears
follows order follows order
rejection rejection punishment punishment
accepts accepts follows follows respects respects
opinion opinion request request authority authority
Conformist Compliant Obedient

Process Questions:

1. Based on the data, is there any comparison that you want to give an
emphasis on?
2. How can you categorize yourself? Are you a conformist, compliant or
obedient? Explain your answer.

What I Have Learned

Directions: Complete the analogy with the words from the marked scatter.

• adjust • accept opinion • done on purpose

• avoid rejection • behavior • change in behavior
• like reward • respect authority • change behavior
• follow norms

1. Perception is to interpret information as Social Influence is to _______.

2. Social Influence is to _______ as Social Facilitation is to work in groups.
3. Perception is to think as Influence is to________.
4. Social Relationship is to interact as Social Influence is to ____________.
5. Conformity is to gain approval as Compliance is to __________________.
6. Compliance is to fear of punishment as Conformity is to _____________.
7. Obedience is to accept responsibility as Conformity is to _____________.
8. Conformity is to gain approval as Obedience is to ____________________.
9. Compliance is to follow explicitly as Conformity is to _________________.
10. Purposely is to on purpose as Purposefully is to ____________________.

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 What I Can Do

In this activity, use the information you gathered form What’s New: Self-
Feedback and Others Feedback, on page 7. Then, write the comments into Helpful
and Hurtful categories in the Venn Diagram below. For the comments you received
that can be both helpful and hurtful, and which have influenced you to change,
write them in the area where the two circles overlap. Use the fourth quadrant of
your paper to present your diagram.

Process Questions:

1. What are the similar comments that you agree and disagree with?
2. How does this feedback influence your relationships with others?

Helpful Hurtful

Assessment

Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.

1. Which of the following is the change in one’s behavior to adapt to the social
demands?
A. Personal Relationship
B. Social Relationship
C. Social Facilitation
D. Social Influence

2. Which of the following is the change in one’s behavior to be more like the
others in the group?
A. Complement
B. Compliance
C. Conformity
D. Obedience

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3. Which of the following is the change in one’s behavior by doing a request
asked by other individuals in exchange for reward or punishment?
A. Complement
B. Complacent
C. Compliance
D. Conformity

4. Which of the following is the change in one’s behavior by following the

demand given by the individuals you respect?
A. Compliance
B. Conformity
C. Obedience
D. Objective

5. Which of the following enables a person to perform better with others than
working alone?
A. Social Facilitation
B. Social Influence
C. Social Change
D. Social Loafing

6. Which of the following characterizes a conforming individual?

A. Accepts responsibility
B. Fears punishment
C. Gains approval
D. Likes reward

7. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a conforming individual?

A. Accepts responsibility
B. Avoids rejection
C. Accepts opinion
D. Gains approval

8. Which of the following characterizes a compliant individual?

A. Accepts responsibility
B. Respects authority
C. Accepts opinions
D. Likes reward

9. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a compliant individual?

A. Fears punishment
B. Follows request
C. Avoids rejection
D. Likes reward

10. Which of the following characterizes an obedient individual?

A. Respects authority
B. Fears punishment
C. Accepts opinion
D. Avoids rejection

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11. Which of the following is not a characteristic of an obedient individual?
A. Accepts responsibility
B. Respects authority
C. Avoids rejection
D. Follows order

12.-15. Identify the type of social influence being described in the following
situations. Write A for Conformity, B for Compliance, and C for Obedience.

12.Sierra greets her colleague by giving a handshake.

13. Claire wears a dress that suits the dinner party at her friend’s house.
14. Emmanuel is in a rush and unable to finish the test.
15. Arman does the household chores assertively.

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 Additional Activities

Now, you have your Infographics. In just one look, you can compare how you
perceive yourself and how others see you. To complete it, you are encouraged to
write your tagline based on your learning experiences in this module at the center
of the paper.

What’s In What’s More

tagline

What’s New What I Can Do

tagline

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CO_Q2_Personal Development SHS 13
What I Have Learned What I Know
1. change behavior
1. A 9. C
2. change in behavior
2. B 10.D
3. behavior
3. B 11.B
4. adjust
4. B 12.A
5. like reward
5. D 13.A
6. avoid rejection
6. B 14.B
7. accept opinion
7. D 15.C
8. respect authority
8. A
9. follow norms
10.done on purpose
Answer Key
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