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Conformity and Obedience (75)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard is also called?
a)
Obedience
b)
Attribute
c)
Conformity
d)
Role
2.
A bunch of high schoolers that suddenly start dressing and talking like each other are probably experiencing which of the following?
a)
Lessons from obedience studies
b)
Following orders
c)
Automatic Mimicry
d)
Normative social influence
3.
Everyone on an airplane deciding to allow people in the front of an airplane to exit the first and then work your way back is example of which of the following?
a)
Normative social influence
b)
Informational social influence
4.
Deciding to start listening to country music because all your friends do is an example of which of the following?
a)
Normative social influence
b)
Informational social influence
5.
Groundbreaking research on obedience was conducted by....
a)
Albert Bandura
b)
Solomon Asch
c)
Philip Zimbardo
d)
Stanley Milgram
e)
John Bargh
6.
Which psychologist had the experiment with the length of lines?
a)
Albert Bandura
b)
Solomon Asch
c)
Philip Zimbardo
d)
Stanley Milgram
e)
John Bargh
7.
Classic studies of obedience indicate that about ____ of the participants were willing to administer what they believed to be 450-volt shocks to other humans.
a)
one-tenth
b)
one-half
c)
one-third
d)
one-fourth
e)
two-thirds
8.
Obedience to authority when the authority figure is asking someone to shocks another person is highest when...
a)
authority figure is a doctor
b)
authority figure is a friend
c)
authority figure is younger than you
d)
authority figure is a not in the room
9.
If you see someone fold their arms the tendency for you to fold your arms is most likely to happen due to the _______.
a)
Obedience
b)
Chameleon effect
c)
Normative
d)
Experiment
10.
These two may be experiencing the chameleon effect.
a)
True
b)
False
11.

What is conformity in the context of social psychology?

a)

Changing one's behavior to match the responses of others

b)

The ability to control others' actions

c)

The study of individual behavior in a social context

d)

The process of resisting social influence

12.
What was the experiment on conformity where subjects knowingly gave incorrect answers to conform to the group norm?
a)
Stanford Prison Experiment
b)
Asch Experiment
c)
Milgram Experiment
d)
Bjorner & Lowe Experiment
13.
Solomon Asch’s findings on conformity might best be used to explain why
a)
members of a family all like the taste of bananas
b)
adolescents follow fads in dress and hairstyle
c)
people are less likely to accept blame for their failures than accept credit for their successes
d)
performance is enhanced in the presence of others
14.

Stanley Milgram's experiments were designed to study:

a)

Conformity

b)

Obedience

c)

Social Influence

d)

Group Behavior

15.

Cynthia convinced her friend to loan her five dollars for lunch by telling her how much she appreciated her friendship.

a)

foot in the door

b)

door in the face

c)

central route of persuasion

d)

peripheral route of persuasion

16.

Match the following

a)

Foot-in-the-Door Persuasion

1.

getting a person to agree to a large request by having them agree to a smaller request first

b)

Door-in-the-Face Persuasion

2.

getting a person to agree to a smaller request by asking them for a larger request first

c)

Norms of Reciprocity

3.

tendency to return kind behavior

17.
The persuader attempts to convince the respondent to comply by making a large request that the respondent will most likely turn down, then ask for something small
a)
risky shift
b)
door in the face
c)
Scapegoating
d)
Ethnocentrism
18.
When the salesperson slides in the clipboard into your house, then asks you to simply sign a petition, then convinces you to buy their product what strategy did the salesperson use?
a)
Central route of persuasion
b)
anger
c)
emotion
d)
foot-in-the-door phenomenon
e)
attitude
19.
If you buy a car because the good looking salesperson convinced you to do it what persuasion was used?
a)
absolute persuasion
b)
peripheral route persuasion
c)
central route persuasion
d)
side route persuasion
20.
The foot-in-the-door phenomenon refers to the tendency to:
a)
experience an increasing attraction to novel stimuli
b)
comply with a lg request if one has complied w/sm request
c)
lose self-restraint n group situations that foster anonymity
d)
perform simple tasks better in the presence of others

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