GCSE - Social Influence Practice 3

Jess starts watching the bake off as all of her friends are watching it, she begins to really like it. This is an example of...

• Compliance

• Identification

• Internalisation

• Obedience

Answer explanation

This is because this is a situation where you do know whats right and wrong so can't be internalisation, but you publicly and privately believe it

Sometimes we interpret a situation by watching other peoples reactions, this is known as...

• Bystander effect

• Diffusion of responsibility

• Noticing the event

• Pluralistic ignorance

Participants were alone in a room or in a group when smoke came in under the door. People were slower to react when they were in a group, this is known as...

• Deindividuation

• Diffusion of responsibility

• Noticing the event

• Pluralistic ignorance

Which of the following are situational factors affecting bystander intervention...

• Diffusion of responsibility

• Pluralistic ignorance

• Competence

• Similarity

If we have an external locus of control we are more likely to...

• Conform

• Show bystander apathy

• Deindividuate

• Obey

Who measured task difficulty and its affects on social influence?

• Asch

• Milgram

• Haney, Banks and Zimbardo

• Piliavin

In Milgrams electric shock experiment obedience fell from 65% to 20% when...

• The experimenter was a member of the public

• The participants was next to the victim

• The participant was told it was not their responsibility what happened in the experiment

• When the experimenter was in the same room as the participant

Answer explanation

Remember when they were in the same room as the participant this was the original experiment so it was still 65%

The authoritarian personality used a questionnaire to measure obedience, this was called...

• F-scale

• Obedience Measure

• Client Outcome Questionnaire

• Life History Calendar

The F-scale found a correlation between... (pick two)

• Authoritarianism

• Prejudice

• Conformity

• Respect for authority figures

Which of the following is the correct definition of anti-social behaviour in relation to deindividuation?

• behaviour that is unhelpful, destructive and aggressive

• behaviour that is unsociable and not wanting company of others

• behaviour that is cold, rejecting and manipulative

• behaviour that is unfair, deceitful and malicious