At a bus depot, four drivers with lived experience of depression met their colleagues once a month for three years. At every meeting, they repeated the message that depression is an illness rather than ordinary sadness. Staff completed an anonymous survey before the meetings began and after three years.
| Survey response | Before the meetings | After three years |
|---|---|---|
| Staff agreeing that depression is ordinary sadness | 64% | 22% |
| Staff reporting that they had checked in on a colleague who was struggling in the past six months | 19% | 61% |
Using the information above, explain how minority influence could have changed attitudes and behaviour at the depot, and justify whether the change is likely to last after the meetings stop.
26 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 4.3 Application: Changing attitudes, covering 4.3.1 Minority influence and social change and 4.3.2 Majority influence and social change. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.