AQA iGCSE psychology - Social Influence

In Asch's key study on conformity what was the primary task given to the participants? 1

• Judging line lengths
• Giving electric shocks
• Helping a victim
• Working in a group

A person's natural tendency to be independent relates to which dispositional factor of conformity? 2

• Expertise
• Culture
• Personality
• Anonymity

When a task is made significantly easier what is the likely effect on conformity levels? 3

• They increase
• They decrease
• They stay the same
• They become random

The term 'dispositional' in psychology refers to factors relating to what? 4444

• The situation
• The environment
• A person's individual characteristics
• The culture

Being required to announce your answer to a group of strangers primarily challenges which social factor of conformity? 5

• Task difficulty
• Group size
• Anonymity
• Proximity

Which of these is a key dispositional factor that can affect whether a person conforms to a group? 6

• Anonymity
• Group size
• Expertise
• Task difficulty

Milgram's agency theory suggests that people obey because they see themselves as an 'agent' of what? 7

• Their own conscience
• A peer group
• An authority figure
• A victim

The state in which a person feels responsible for their own actions is called the... 8

• Agentic state
• Autonomous state
• Authoritarian state
• Prosocial state

According to Adorno's theory a person with an Authoritarian Personality is more likely to be... 9

• More obedient
• Less obedient
• Antisocial
• A bystander

Adorno's theory of the Authoritarian Personality is what type of explanation for obedience? 10

• Social
• Situational
• Cultural
• Dispositional