CONFORMITY & OBEDIENCE

When Sally met with her book group for lunch, all five ladies ordered dessert afterwards, but Sally did not. If Sally had ordered dessert simply because the other ladies had, this would be an example of

• conformity

• obedience

• informational influence

Todd went to the Contemporary Museum of Art with a few people from work. There was one room that had only one painting. While looking at the piece, which was 15 feet high, 30 feet long, and all in the same color-various shades of fire engine red, Todd thought, "What is this? Is this art?" Meanwhile, his friends loved it, and went on and on about how it represented this and that. If Todd were to agree and actually believe that the painting was wonderful, this would be an example of

• NORMATIVE SOCIAL INFLUENCE

• COMPLIANCE

• INTERNALIZATION

Which pioneering researcher used the Autokinetic phenomenon to study norm formation?

• Muzafer Sherif

• Solomon Asch

• Stanley Milgram

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

• Obedience

• Conformity 

• Peer pressure

Social psychologist who researched obedience to authority.

• Stanley Milgram (1933-1984)

• Solomon Asch (1907-1996)

• Philip Zimbardo (1933-):

Zimbardo's most famous experiment involved

• a fake prison in the Stanford University basement.

• showing people lines and observing their degree of conformity to the judgement of others.

• ordering participants to give supposed electric shocks to fake participants in order to judge their obedience to authority.

Conformity based on a person's desire to fulfill others' expectations, often to gain their acceptance, is called

• compliance

• acceptance

• normative influence

• informational influence

Conformity due to the desire to gain acceptance and praise and avoid exclusion from others is known as ______.

• normative influence

• informational influence

Creating an impression that a product is popular and widely accepted

• Bandwagon Effect

• Social Group Influence

• Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Which experiment demonstrated the extent to which individuals would conform to a majority opinion, even when it was clearly incorrect?

• The Stanford Prison Experiment

• The Robbers Cave Experiment

• The Milgram Experiment on Obedience

• The Asch Conformity Experiments