Social Influence - up to and including socio-psychological

Following what the majority do in order to fit in is called...

• Conformity

• Obedience

• Normative Social Influence

• Informational Social Influence

Which of these is not a variation of Asch?

• Task ambiguity

• Task difficulty

• Group Size

• Location

Which study had a sample of 123 participants?

• Asch

• Zimbardo

• Milgram

In Zimbardo's study, what percentage of conversations were about prison life?

• 65%

• 75%

• 90%

• 100%

What percentage of participants went to 450V's in Milgram's study?

• 65%

• 75%

• 85%

• 100%

Which variation of Milgram's study produced the highest obedience levels?

• Proximity to the experimenter (phone condition)

• Proximity to the participant (shock plate condition)

• Location (run down office)

• Uniform (lab coat)

Which of the following are explanations of conformity?

• Compliance

• Normative social influence

• Informational social influence

• Internalisation

• Identification

Jenness' Jelly bean study found that participants were likely to change their original estimate, but why?

• Informational social influence

• Normative social influence

• Compliance

• Identification

In Asch's study, participants gave three reasons for conforming, one was when they had doubts about their accuracy to identify the correct line?

• Distortion of action

• Distortion of perception

• Distortion of judgement

A personality type associated with following the orders of an authority

• Authoritarian Personality

• Agentic State

• Legitimacy of Authority

• Locus of Control