Module 4.3a Quiz

Which of the following refers to the tendency of people to mimic others’ behaviors?

• Obedience

• Minority influence

• Social contagion

• Informational social influence

Which of the following is an example of conformity?

• Malik is the manager of a grocery store, and he expects his employees to be on time for work every day.

• Renee buys the same brand of sweatshirt that most of the kids in her school are wearing.

• Jonah makes sure to arrive home before his curfew because he knows he will be grounded if he doesn’t.

• Terry exerts more effort during volleyball practice because the team captain scolded her for not showing enough effort.

Jon does what his friends are doing and throws eggs at houses on Halloween, even though he knows that he should not. Jon’s egg throwing is most likely due to

• obedience.

• normative social influence.

• minority influence.

• informational social influence.

Lyudmila hires a consultant to learn how to increase conformity and obedience in her organization. What advice will the consultant likely give?

• People are more likely to obey and to conform in large groups.

• People are more likely to obey and to conform when others have high perceived status.

• People are more likely to obey and to conform when the victim is depersonalized.

• People are more likely to obey and to conform when they come from individualist cultures.

Which of the following illustrates a reason why Milgram’s study would not pass the ethical guidelines of an institutional review board today?

• Milgram did not obtain the informed consent of the participants, and he deceived them in his study.

• Milgram put participants under intense psychological distress by making them think they greatly harmed another human.

• Milgram did not employ either random sampling or random assignment.

• Milgram drew conclusions from the study that would not generalize to broader populations.