Social Influences

The Stanford Prison experiment demonstrated

• the negative consequences of groupthink.
• how far people are willing to go when instructed to do something by an authority figure.
• the power that situations can have in changing how people feel, think, and behave.
• the boost that social facilitation can provide to individual performance.

What did the electric shock experiment show? 

• Most people will obey orders, even when it harms others. 
• Morality is more important to people than being obedient 
• Most people prefer social acceptance than to be correct. 
• Conformity can lead to obedience 

_____ set up an experiment, known as the Stanford Prison experiment, where people played the role of a prison guard. The goal was to observe if this authority position would cause them to act differently.

• Solomon Asch
• Philip Zimbardo
• Stanley Milgram
• Leon Festinger

What is a difference between obedience and conformity?

• In conformity, there is a perceived difference in status between the one who conforms and the group.

• In obedience, there is a difference in status between the one who obeys and the one who makes the request.

• Conformity requires strict adherence to the rules, whereas obedience does not.

• Obedience is an indirect request, whereas conformity is a direct request.

• Conformity involves agreeing to change in response to a request, whereas obedience involves an indirect request for agreement.

An experiment in which "participants" unanimously choose the wrong line. It is clear to you that they are wrong, but they have all given the same answer.

• Stanley Milgram Shock Experiment
• Leon Festinger Cognitive Dissonance Experiment
• Solomon Asch Line Experiment
• Philip Zimbardo Prison Experiment

This experimenter was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. 

• This was Leon Festinger
• This was Solomon Asch
• This was Philip Zimbardo
• This was Stanley Milgram

Milgram's aim was to investigate whether ___ would follow orders and give an innocent person a potentially harmful electric shock.

• soliders

• ordinary people

• males

• teachers

Mr Wallace was the...

• Teacher

• Learner

• Experimenter

The teacher had to shock the learner every time they got an answer wrong. What percentage of ppts went to the full 450 V?

• 30%

• 45%

• 50%

• 65%

100% of ppts went to which shock level?

• 100 V

• 200 V

• 300 V

• 400 V