What did the electric shock experiment show?

Most people will obey orders, even when it harms others.

Morality is more important to people than being obedient

Most people prefer social acceptance than to be correct.

Conformity can lead to obedience

What did the line comparison experiment reveal?

Most people prefer social acceptance than to be correct.

Most people will obey orders, even when it harms others.

Morality is more important to people than being obedient

Conformity can lead to obedience

Which of the following studies in the field of social psychology met with the greatest criticism about the ethical issues involved?

Zajonc's studies on mere-exposure effect

Which of the following is the best definition of conformity?

A change in behaviour or belief toward a group as a result of real or imagined group pressure

A change in behaviour or belief as a result of direct pressure from a person in authority.

Change in behaviour or belief as a result of indirect pressure from a person in authority.

A change in behaviour or belief as a result of a direct request by someone with no authority.

What did the electric shock experiment show?

Most people will obey orders, even when it harms others.

Morality is more important to people than being obedient

Most people prefer social acceptance than to be correct.

Conformity can lead to obedience

The Stanford Prison experiment demonstrated

the power that situations can have in changing how people feel, think, and behave.

the negative consequences of groupthink.

how far people are willing to go when instructed to do something by an authority figure.

the boost that social facilitation can provide to individual performance.

Zimbardo's most famous experiment involved...

a fake prison in the Stanford University basement.

observing whether the children to whom he gave marshmallows could delay gratification.

showing people lines and observing their degree of conformity to the judgement of others.

ordering participants to give supposed electric shocks to fake participants in order to judge their obedience to authority.

Asch's experiments focused on the question of...

how people act out ascribed roles.

what influences people to carry out antisocial behaviours.

obedience to an authority figure.

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're doing.

Going along with other people even though we don't agree.

Going along with other people because we accept their views.

What did Asch find out about group size?

Conformity increased with group size but only to a point.

Conformity kept increasing with group size.

Conformity decreased as group size increased.

Increasing group size had no effect on conformity.

What did Asch find about unanimity?

A unanimous majority had the greatest effect on conformity.

Conformity stayed the same whether the majority was unanimous or not.

When a partner disagreed with the majority conformity increased.

A divided majority had the greatest effect on conformity.

In relation to Zimbardo's prison experiment, which statement best describes the behaviour of the prisoners?

They became more withdrawn and anxious as the study progressed.

They resisted the cruelty of the guards throughout the study.

They made it very difficult for the guards to enforce the rules of the prison.

In term's of Milgram's findings, 65% refers to the proportion of participants who:

Went all the way to the top of the shock scale.

Refused to continue at some point in the experiment.

Disobeyed at the very beginning of the procedure.

Went up to 300v and then refused to continue.

What did Milgram find out about proximity in his variations?

Obedience decreased when the teacher and learner were physically closer.

Obedience increased when the experimenter issued his instructions over the phone.

Most participants obeyed even when they had to put the learner's hand on the shock plate.

The physical proximity of experimenter, teacher and learner had the smallest effect.

What did Milgram find out about location in his variations?

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 Milgram's variations produced the lowest obedience?

Member of public stands in for experimenter.

Teacher forces learner's hand onto shock plate.

Study is transferred to run-down office block.

Experimenter issues instructions by telephone.

Milgram's real participants were

seated in front of a realistic looking electric shock machine.

subjected to real electric shocks.

forced to give real electric shocks.

swift to reject the experimenter's request to shock innocents.

The original idea for Milgram's experiment was based on...

the defence of Eichmann during the Nuremberg trials that he was only following orders.

an interest in the civil disobedience marches of the 1960s.

a desire to show that Americans were not in any way like the Nazis.

a fear that he and other Americans would be conscripted to go to Vietnam.

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Which researcher's work was key to our understanding of obedience

Asch

Milgram

Eichmann

Durkheim

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Which researcher's work was key to our understanding of conformity?

Asch

Milgram

Eichmann

Durkheim

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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What term best describes an individual in an experiment who is being studied?

Confederate

Participant

Learner

Client

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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What term best describes an actor in an experiment who is working for the researcher?

Confederate

Participant

Learner

Subject

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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What term means acting in ways that fit with group norms and customs?

Obedience

Conformity

Peer pressure

Society

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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What term means changing one's behavior in response to an authority figure's command?

Obedience

Conformity

Peer pressure

Evolution

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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Why can't psychologists recreate Milgram's experiment?

It's protected under copywrite law

It's unethical

It's not cost-effective

The procedure has been destroyed

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Conformity and Obedience

Which researcher's work was key to our understanding of obedience

Which researcher's work was key to our understanding of conformity?

What term best describes an individual in an experiment who is being studied?

What term best describes an actor in an experiment who is working for the researcher?

What term means acting in ways that fit with group norms and customs?

What term means changing one's behavior in response to an authority figure's command?

Why can't psychologists recreate Milgram's experiment?

What did the electric shock experiment show?

What did the line comparison experiment reveal?

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