Social Groups

Any group that individuals use as a standard for evaluating themselves

• Out-Group

• Reference Group

• Avoidance

• Aspirational

A leader who takes personal charge of group decisions, and demands total group obedience.

• Democratic

• Authoritarian

• Laissez-faire

• Stalinist

According to the Milgram study people will knowingly harm others if what?

• They get paid

• If there a lot of people around

• An authority figure tells them they have to

• If they have a low hurry factor

A group to which people feel they belong

• Us

• Personal Orientation

• In- Group

• Out- Group

According to the Bystander Effect, people are less likely to offer help when?

• If they are by themselves

• When they know they are being filmed

• In a group of others

• It doesn't matter, no one will ever help anyone ever.

What was the purpose of the Asch Experiment?

• To measure the effect of authority

• To measure the effects of group pressure

• To show the importance of situation over personality

• To measure the effect of time

What is the term for a person who secretly participates in a social experiment, and is in league with the experimenter.

• Subject

• Learner

• Teacher

• Confederate

A group to which an individual does not identify with.

• Coercive

• Avoidance

• Family

• Out-Group

According to the Good Samaritan what factor was most important in people stopping and helping

• How religious they were

• Their ability to preform CPR

• Their hurry factor

• Nothing, no one will ever help anyone else, ever

Groups in which membership is beyond and individual's control

• Involuntary

• Voluntary

• In-Group

• Norms