Influences on social behaviour

Which researcher's work was key to our understanding of conformity? 

• Asch
• Milgram
• Eichmann
• Durkheim 

What term best describes an individual in an experiment who is being studied? 

• Confederate
• Participant
• Learner
• Client

 What term describes the written agreement that is given prior to the experiment with research details? 

• Complete Disclosure
• Informed Consent 
• Ethics
• Moral Relativism

What term means acting in ways that fit with group norms and customs? 

• Obedience
• Conformity 
• Peer pressure
• Society

What term means changing one's behavior in response to an authority figure's command?  

• Obedience
• Conformity 
• Peer pressure
• Evolution

Why can't psychologists recreate Milgram's experiment? 

• It's protected under copywrite law
• It's unethical 
• It's not cost-effective
• The procedure has been destroyed 

In Milgram's study on obedience to authority, what procedure were done?

• The Learners took a real exam
• 'Learners' received an electroshock from 'teachers.'
• Participants were paid $10 for participating
• A teacher taught a real student

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Milgram's studies on obedience to authority the procedures showed that

• the majority of the people were able to resist the experimenter's pressure to shock the 'learner.'
• obedience was strongly linked to the subject's background.
• subjects did not care about what was happening to the 'learner.'
• most 'teachers' delivered the maximum amount of shock to the 'learner.'

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In Zimbardo's Prison Study how were the prisoners and guards allocated?

• Participants said which role they preferred to take

• Zimbardo decided who should goin each group

• Randomly

• First 12 to volunteer allocated prisoner role, second 12 guards