12 PSY Unit 3 Chapter 12 review

A group is two or more people who interact over a period of time, have ___________ on each other and share a common goal.

A style of leadership where the leader actively makes all the decisions and exercises control over the group

• democratic

• authoritarian

• laissez-faire

• country club

______ power is a type of power that is due to the skills and depth of knowledge.

Against the wishes of the experimenters, the prison guards in the Stanford Prison experiment exercised this type of power.

• information power

• reward power

• coercive power

• referent power

Similar to anonymity, this process contributed to the anti-social behaviour of the guards in the Stanford Prison experiment.

Where an individual or group behaves in a certain way on someone's orders or rules

• authority

• compliance

• obedience

• conformity

________ conducted a famous experiment in 1961 which explored the extent to which people's obedience would prevail over their morals.

In Milgram's experiment, 100% of the participants inflicted shocks of

• 300 volts

• 315 volts

• 330 volts

• 360 volts

Milgram's study on obedience preceded Asch's study on conformity

• True

• False

The presence of others which can encourage people to behave in the same manner or show similar interests and beliefs is called ...