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WorksheetsAQA A-level Psychology: Social Influence Summary
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following is a type of conformity?
a)
Unanimity
b)
Internalisation
c)
Normative social influence
d)
Obedience
2.
Which of the following is an explanation for conformity?
a)
Compliance
b)
Informational social influence
c)
Identification
d)
Internalisation
3.
Which of the following statements best describes compliance?
a)
Conformity to a majority because we want to be accepted or liked
b)
Publicly and privately agreeing with the majority view
c)
Publicly agreeing with the majority but privately disagreeing
d)
Conforming to a majority because we want to be correct
4.
Which of the following statements best describes normative social influence?
a)
Going along with a group of people because we want to be liked by them
b)
Going along with a group of people because we don't know what we're doing
c)
Going along with other people even though we don't even agree
d)
Going along with other people because we accept their views
5.
In Asch's orignal study, the naive participant was always seated:
a)
Last
b)
First
c)
Next-to-last
d)
Last or next-to-last
6.
What did Asch conclude about group size?
a)
Conformity kept increasing with group size
b)
Conformity decreased as group size increased
c)
Conformity increased with group size but only to a point
d)
Increasing group size had no effect on conformity
7.
What did Asch conclude about unanimity?
a)
Conformity stayed the same whether the majority was unanimous or not
b)
A unanimous majority had the greatest effect on conformity
c)
When a partner (fellow dissenter) disagreed with the majority, conformity increased
d)
A divided majority had the greatest effect on conformity
8.
What did Asch conclude about task difficulty?
a)
Conformity decreased when the task became more difficult
b)
Conformity increased when the task became more difficult
c)
Increasing task difficulty had no effect on conformity
d)
The task was too difficult for the naive participant
9.
The Stanford prison study investigated:
a)
Rebellion
b)
Conformity to social roles
c)
Obedience to authority
d)
Compliance
10.
What was Zimbardo's role in the Stanford prison study?
a)
The prison superintendent
b)
Both the prison superintendent and lead researcher
c)
Lead researcher
d)
Not part of the study
11.
In the Stanford prison study, the roles of guard and prisoner were decided:
a)
On a first come, first-served basis
b)
By asking the participants to volunteer
c)
By the researchers
d)
Randomly
12.
Which statement best describes the behaviour of the prisoners in the Stanford prison study?
a)
They resisted the cruelty of the guards throughout the study
b)
They became more withdrawn and anxious as the study progressed
c)
They made it very difficult for the guards to enforce the rules of the prison
d)
They supported each other
13.
Milgram recruited participants by:
a)
Placing adverts in local papers and sending out flyers
b)
Putting up posters in the local neighbourhood
c)
Word of mouth
d)
Drawing names out of a hat
14.
Three people were involved in Milgram's procedure. They were:
a)
Participant, confederate, learner
b)
Experimenter, confederate, learner
c)
Experimenter, teacher, learner
d)
Experimenter, learner, Mr. Wallace
15.
The final prod given to participants in Milgram's study was:
a)
'It is absolutely essential that you continue.'
b)
'Please go on'
c)
'You have no other choice, you must continue.'
d)
'The experiment requires that you continue.'
16.
In terms of Milgram's findings, 65% refers to the proportion of participants who:
a)
Refused to continue at some point in the procedure
b)
Went all the way to the top of the shock scale
c)
Disobeyed at the very beginning of the procedure
d)
Went up to 300v and then refused to continue
17.
What did Milgram find out about proximity in his variations?
a)
Obedience increased when the experimenter issued instructions over the phone
b)
Obedience decreased when the teacher and the learner were physically closer
c)
Most participants obeyed even when they had to put the learner's hand on the shock plate
d)
The physical proximity of the experimenter, teacher and learner had the smallest effect
18.
What did Milgram find out about location in his variations?
a)
Obedience decreased when the study was conducted in a run-down part of town
b)
The high status of Yale University made no difference to obedience
c)
Most participants still obeyed when the study was moved to a run-down office building
d)
Changing location had the greatest effect on obedience
19.
Which of Milgram's variations produced the lowest obedience?
a)
Teacher forces learner's hand onto shock plate
b)
Study is tranferred to a run-down office block
c)
Experimenter issues instructions by telephone
d)
A member of the public stands in for the experimenter
20.
Bickman's (1974) study supported Milgram because he found that:
a)
Changing to a higher status location increased obedience
b)
People often obeyed someone dressed in a security guard's uniform
c)
Increasing the distance between the participants reduced obedience
d)
Reducing the distance between authority and the participant increased obedience
21.
'Believing you are carrying out the wishes of someone else' is a brief description of:
a)
Informational social influence
b)
Situational theory of obedience
c)
Agentic state
d)
Legitimacy of authority
22.
The massacre of unarmed civilians at My Lai by US soldiers can be explained by:
a)
Agentic state
b)
Legitimacy of authority
c)
Both the agentic state and the legitimacy of authority
d)
Neither the agentic state or the legitimacy of authority
23.
A problem with the agentic state explanation of obedience is that:
a)
It can't explain why the proportion of people who obeyed the experimenter in Milgram's study was so high
b)
It can't explain why some people in Milgram's study did not obey the experimenter
c)
There is no research support
d)
It is not as useful as legitimacy of authority
24.
Legitimacy of authority is a good explanation of cultural differences in obedience because:
a)
Some cultures are more traditionally respectful of authority than others
b)
Some cultures are less traditionally respectful of authority than others
c)
Cultures differ in the way parents raise their children to view authority figures
d)
All other options
25.
According to Adorno, people with an authoritarian personality:
a)
Are highly obedient to authority
b)
Look with contempt on people of inferior social status
c)
Favour traditional values and conventional attitudes
d)
All other options
26.
Authoriarian personality is measured using the:
a)
Assertiveness scale
b)
Potential for fascism scale
c)
AP-scale
d)
Potential for obedience scale
27.
An authoritarian personality develops because the child:
a)
Receives unconditional love and affection from parents
b)
Is spoiled by his or her parents who do not use any discipline
c)
Experiences feelings of hostility towards his or her parents that cannot be expressed directly
d)
Is accepted regardless of his or her achievements
28.
People with authoritarian personality are very preoccupied with social status. Therefore they:
a)
Treat all people with respect
b)
Feel sympathetic to those of lower status
c)
Tend not to be impressed by the trappings of high status
d)
Are servile and obedient to those of higher status
29.
The effects of social support (when resisting social influence) were shown in Asch's studies when:
a)
The size of the majority was increased from 2 to 14
b)
The task was more difficult because the lines were closer
c)
The participants wrote their answers down rather than stating them out loud
d)
A dissenter gave the correct answers all the time
30.
Social support helps people to resist social influence because:
a)
It breaks the unanimity of the majority
b)
It provides a model of disobedience to be followed
c)
It frees people to act according to their consciences
d)
All other options
31.
Which of the statements about locus of control is the most accurate?
a)
Everyone is either definitely internal or definitely external
b)
There is very little difference between moderate internals and moderate externals
c)
High internals and high externals are at opposite end of a continuum
d)
Internals and externals are very similar in their ability to resist social influence
32.
Those with a high internal locus of control are likely to resist social influence than high externals because:
a)
They believe that whatever they do makes no real difference
b)
They tend to be more self-confident and take personal responsibility
c)
They are less likely to have an authoritarian personality
d)
They have a greater need for social approval from others
33.
Minority influence is especially effective because:
a)
It involves suporting strange and unusual causes
b)
People are forced to think more deeply about the issues
c)
No one likes to think they are part of a mindless crowd
d)
A small group of people appears unthreatening
34.
Consistency in the minority position is effective because:
a)
It highlights the complacency of the majority
b)
It increases the amount of interest from the majority
c)
Most peole have a need to be consistent in their views
d)
A bickering minority attracts more attention and support
35.
Flexibility in the minority position is needed because:
a)
Consistency alone can be a negative thing and off-putting
b)
It shows that the minority isn't really all that bothered
c)
It allows the majority to get its own way, so they are more likely to agree
d)
None of the other options
36.
Minority influence can lead to which kind of conformity?
a)
Compliance
b)
Identification
c)
Internalisation
d)
Inspiration
37.
Once social change has occurred, its origins are forgotten by the process called:
a)
Social cryptomnesia
b)
Flexibility
c)
Gradual commitment
d)
Internalisation
38.
Conformity to the majority can sometimes create social change through the operation of the:
a)
Augmentation
b)
The snowball effect
c)
Social proof
d)
Normative social influence
39.
The augmentation principle in minority influence refers to:
a)
How the source of the social change is eventually forgotten
b)
How members of the minority make personal sacrifices
c)
The attention that the minority attracts from the majority
d)
The deeper processing of the minority view by the majority
40.
The way in which a minority view becomes the new norm of the majority is explained by the:
a)
Compliance
b)
Social proof
c)
Consistency
d)
The snowball effect
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