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They became more withdrawn and anxious as the study progressed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