Social Influence Quiz

Which of the following is the most direct and powerful example of social influence?

• Complying with a polite request made by a friend

• Conforming to a group norm

• Obedience to an order from an authority figure

• Emotion-based attitudes

Which of the following statements best captures the relationship between cultural beliefs and conformity?

• There is little variability in how people from different cultures think about conformity.

• Compared to many cultures, Americans tend to have relatively negative attitudes toward conformity.

• Compared to many cultures, Americans tend to have relatively positive attitudes toward conformity.

• Americans’ beliefs about conformity have become more and more negative as the years go by.

Conformity always includes

• Positive and moral behavior.

• Negative and immoral behavior.

• The real or imagined influence of other people.

• An authority figure.

Informational social influence occurs

• When we believe that other people’s reactions can help us arrive at an accurate reading of a situation.

• Through public but not private conformity.

• Only in a crisis.

• Auto kinetically.

The more important it is to people to make an accurate decision,....

• The less likely they are to conform to informational social influence.

• The more likely they are to conform to informational social influence.

• the more they seek to make that decision on their own, uninfluenced by what the people around them have to say.

• The more they will prefer public to private conformity.

Which of the following statements best captures the relationship between informational social influence and eyewitness performance in legal proceedings?

• Because the stakes are so high in a criminal trial, eyewitnesses do not conform to informational social influence.

• Eyewitnesses are encouraged to use informational social influence in providing their testimony at trial.

• The legal system often takes steps to prevent conformity to informational social influence among eyewitnesses.

• Informational social influence always makes eyewitnesses more accurate.

Informational social influence is most likely to occur when

• A situation is unambiguous and not a crisis.

• The other people around are not experts and the situation is not a crisis.

• The other people around are experts and the situation is ambiguous.

• A situation is a crisis but also unambiguous.

Societal rules regarding acceptable behavior are known as

• contagion.

• social norms.

• minority influence.

• convergence.

Asch’s line-judgment research indicated that

• Participants demonstrated public conformity without private acceptance.

• Every single participant conformed at least one time.

• Conformity was greater when participants wrote down their responses rather than said them aloud.

• Conformity occurs only on a task that is of personal importance to the individual.

Compared to informational social influence, normative social influence

• Leads to more internalized, private attitude change.

• Is more consistent across different cultures.

• Has less to do with being accurate and more to do with fitting in.

• Is a tendency about which most Americans hold positive attitudes.