Social Influence Key Terms

1. What term describes an explanation of obedience offered by Milgram, where an individual carries out the orders of an authority figure, acting as their agent?

• a) Conformity to Social Roles
• b) Compliance
• c) Agentic State
• d) Commitment: Social Influence

2. Who conducted a series of studies in the 1950s to examine the extent to which people would conform to the opinions of others in an unambiguous situation?

• a) Milgram
• b) Zimbardo
• c) Asch
• d) Adorno

3. What term refers to the situation where someone changes their public behaviour but not their private beliefs, usually as a result of normative social influence?

• a) Internalisation: Social Influence
• b) Identification: Social Influence
• c) Compliance
• d) Conformity to Social Roles

4. Which term is used to describe the ways in which a society develops over time to replace beliefs, attitudes, and behaviour with new norms and expectations?

• a) Social Change
• b) Social Support: Social Influence
• c) Minority Influence
• d) Group Size

5. What term refers to an explanation of obedience offered by Milgram, suggesting that we are more likely to obey a person who has a higher position or status in a social hierarchy?

• a) Normative Social Influence
• b) Locus of Control
• c) Legitimacy of Authority
• d) Flexibility

6. Which term describes the level of conformity where a person changes both their public behaviour and their private beliefs, usually as a result of informational social influence?

• a) Compliance
• b) Internalisation: Social Influence
• c) Identification: Social Influence
• d) Agentic State

7. What variable affecting conformity did Asch identify, noting that increasing its difficulty led to higher levels of conformity?

• a) Task Difficulty
• b) Group Size
• c) Unanimity
• d) Consistency

8. Who proposed the idea of locus of control, suggesting that it affects the extent to which people believe they have control over their lives?

• a) Milgram
• b) Rotter
• c) Asch
• d) Adorno

9. What term refers to the situation where someone conforms in order to be accepted and belong to a group, usually as a result of normative social influence?

• a) Social Support: Social Influence
• b) Compliance
• c) Normative Social Influence
• d) Social Change

10. In Milgram's research, which situational variable affecting obedience involves how close someone or something is to an individual?

• a) Flexibility
• b) Location
• c) Proximity
• d) Uniform