WorksheetsCOMMONLIT - Why Do People Follow the Crowd?
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is the relationship between the Primetime experiments and the Germans who followed Adolf Hitler?
The experiments reveal that both that the Germans who followed Adolf Hitler and the people in the experiments cannot be held responsible for following the crowd
The experiments reveal the human desire to conform and explain why the Germans were willing to follow Hitler.
The experiments illustrate that the Germans were wrong to follow Adolf Hitler, just like the people in the experiment were wrong to follow the crowd.
They both demonstrate that even under extreme pressure, some people will resist and do what they think is right.
What is the purpose of this article?
to allow individuals the opportunity to earn a living participating in an experiment involving one thousand participants.
so that outlandish behavior most people wouldn’t dream of can be manifested throughout the country
to answer the age old question: Why do people follow the crowd?
in order for the majority of people to look to see what others are doing and follow their example
Multiple select: These TWO examples illustrate something that we humans don't like to admit about ourselves:
We make decisions without thinking
We don't take enough showers
We follow the pack
We follow sometimes at our own peril
Peril means
being aware without realizing it
doing things that are original
thinking in a negative way
great danger
What is the central idea of the text?
Experiments reveal that people’s behavior is greatly influenced by their desire to conform.
People are unable to resist the desire to follow the crowd because it is part of human psychology.
An overwhelming desire to fit in encourages people to display bizarre behavior at restaurants.
The Nazi’s used behavioral experiments to trick German citizens into following the laws that most recognized as immoral.
The author stated that during the moment of decision, his subjects brains lit up not in the area where thinking takes place, but in the back of the brain,
where you begin to smell
where you go to dinner
where vision is interpreted.
where all men travel to catch salmon
To decipher something is to ...
complete an Algebraic function
separate liquids
use a scalpel to cut open a frog
work out, even though something is difficult
