Conformity and Social Influence Quiz

What is conformity?

• Being indifferent to group pressure

• Ignoring the group's opinions

• Being a leader in a group

• Changing your beliefs or behaviors to fit in with a group

Which type of conformity is characterized by changing beliefs to be liked and avoid rejection?

• Compliance

• Internalisation

• Normative Social Influence (NSI)

• Informational Social Influence (ISI)

What is an example of normative social influence?

• Changing beliefs because you think others know better

• Dressing in a certain way to fit in with a group

• Supporting a football team because others do

• Becoming a vegan because your best friend is one

In Asch's study, what percentage of participants conformed to the incorrect answer on critical trials?

• 75%

• 25%

• 36.8%

• 50%

What did Asch's study reveal about the difficulty of the task?

• The task was incredibly difficult

• The correct answer was obvious

• The task was ambiguous

• The task was impossible to solve

What did Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrate?

• The power of the situation to influence people's behavior

• The lack of influence of social roles

• The insignificance of authority figures

• The absence of conformity in a simulated prison environment

What was a major ethical issue in Zimbardo's study?

• Lack of ecological validity

• Psychological harm to participants

• High control of extraneous variables

• Standardized procedures

What did Haslam and Reicher's study reveal about the prisoners in the BBC prison story?

• They were indifferent to their assigned roles

• They were unable to form a collective resistance

• They accepted their position and united as a group

• They were easily manipulated by the guards

What variable affecting conformity refers to the unanimity of the majority?

• The difficulty of the task

• The power of the situation

• The unanimity of the majority

• Group Size

What did Asch's study and the Asch effect reveal about human behavior?

• It is a fundamental feature of human behavior

• It lacks reliability today

• It is not influenced by social roles

• It is consistent across time and situations