Social Influence ♥

A revision quiz for the entire topic of social influence! For AQA AS level Psychology. Please let me know if there are any mistakes! Enjoy :)

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Who came up with the three types of conformity?
Kelman
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What is compliance?
Publicly conforming with the behaviour and views of others whilst disagreeing privately
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What is identification?
A person taking on the views of the group they join or admire due to group pressure
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What is internalisation?
Deepest level of conformity. Involves a person changing both their public and their private view
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What are the two types of motivation to conform?
Normative influence and informational influence
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Who categorised the motivation to conform into two types?
Deutsch and Gerard
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What is a key study of normative influence?
Line experiment by Solomon Asch, 1951
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What is a case study of informational influence?
Blue green study by Serge Moscovici, 1969
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What is normative influence?
Where a person conforms in order to be accepted and belong to a group avoiding social rejection
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What is informational influence?
Where a person conforms to gain knowledge or because they believe that somebody else is right
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When was Solomon Asch’s line experiment?
1951
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How many participants were there in the line experiment?
123 male participants
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How many Confederates and how many naive participants were there in the line experiment?
One naive participant and six Confederates
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What happened during the line experiment?
The participants were given three sheets of paper with lines of varying length. They were then asked to decide which line A, B or C matched with the reference paper
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What percentage of people conformed at least once in the line experiment?
77%
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What was the overall conformity rate in the line experiment?
33%
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When one Confederate picked the right line did conformity reduce or increase?
Greatly reduced
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What was the percentage conformity when there were two Confederates in the line experiment?
13.6%
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What was the percentage conformity when there were one Confederate in the line experiment?
31.8%
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What is McCarthyism?
Making accusation of treason without proper regard for evidence
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Who replicated the line experiment on British engineering students in the 70s?
Perrin and Spencer
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Who observes that participants who were confident in their ability to complete a task are less likely to conform?
Wiesenthal et al
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Who found inconsistencies in sex differences when they analysed conformity data?
Eagly and Carli
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Who carried out the autokinetic effect experiment and when?
Sherif in 1935
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What did Sherif try to show in his experiment?
That people conform when they’re performing an ambiguous task
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What was not an issue with Sherifs experiments?
Participants were not protected from harm
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How many participants were involved in the Bluegreen study?
Six participants, four naive and two Confederates
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In the consistent minority version of the Bluegreen experiment how many people conformed at least once?
32%
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When was the Stanford prison experiment?
1971
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What kind of sample were the participants in the Stanford prison experiment?
Volunteer sample
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How much were the participants in the Stanford prison experiment paid per day?
$15
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How many guards and how many prisoners were there in the Stanford prison experiment?
10 guards and 11 prisoners
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How long is the Stanford prison experiment meant to last?
Two weeks
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How long did the Stanford prison experiment actually last?
Six days
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Why were the prisoners and guards given separate uniforms in the Stanford prison experiment?
Deindividuation
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What was the prisoner uniform like in the Stanford prison experiment?
Included a gown, a hair net, chain and lock, a number on their smock and no underwear
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What was the guard uniform like in the Stanford prison experiment?
Khaki uniform, reflective sunglasses, a baton and a whistle
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When was the Milgram study?
1963
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Which psychologist conducted a study into obedience?
Milgram
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What was Milgram initially looking for an answer to when he conducted his experiment?
Why the German population had followed the orders of Hitler and killed millions of Jews
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What type of sample was used in Milgram’s experiment?
Volunteer sample
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Who was put forward for Milgram’s initial experiment?
40 male pps
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How old were the pps recruited for Milgram’s study?
20-50 years old
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What percentage of people stopped at 300V?
12.5%
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What percentage of people went all the way to 450V?
65%
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What qualitative data was not collected during the Milgram experiment?
Vomiting
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When Milgram asked psychology students prior to his study how many pps they believed would go to 450V, what did they say?
3%
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What was the obedience rate in Milgram study when the learner could not be seen or heard?
100%
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What was the obedience rate in the Milgram study when the participants had to place the learner’s hand on an electric plate?
30%
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What was the obedience rate in the Milgram study when the learner could be seen and heard?
40%
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What was the obedience rate in the Milgram study when it was located in an run down office building?
48%
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What was the obedience rate in the Milgram study when the men in lab coats wore civilian clothes?
20%
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What was the obedience rate in the Milgram study when the participants were given their instructions over phone?
20%
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How was Milgram’s study replicated in the real world?
Hofling posed as a doctor and told nurses via phone to administer 20mg astroten
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Who coined the Authoritarian Personality?
Adorno
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How is the authoritarian personality measured?
F-scale
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What are three reasons why somebody may resist social influence?
Locus of control, social support, moral considerations
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When Milgram introduced a doubting confederate into his experiment, what did the obedience rate fall to?
10%
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When Asch introduced an ally into his experiment, what did conformity rates fall to?
5.5%
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What was the Rosenstrasse Project?
When non-Jewish wives protested against their Jewish husbands being taken to concentration camps
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What does locus of control mean?
What we believe controls the events in our lives
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What is the first step in mass social change?
Seeing 1/2 examples of social change, e.g. Rosa Parks, MLK
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What is the second step in mass social change?
Seeing change from minorities
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What is the third step in mass social change?
Listening to and internalising these beliefs
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What is the fourth step in mass social change?
Snowball effect: what was once a minority view gains popularity at a rapid pace
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What is the fifth step in mass social change?
Social cryptoamnesia
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What is social cryptoamnesia?
Becoming so used to a social norm that you forget to credit those who made it possible
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Give an example of social cryptoamnesia
The suffragettes: without them, women would have so many less rights, but how often do we credit them in everyday life?
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What is a dispositional explanation?
Any explanation of behaviour that highlights the importance of one's personality
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In Asch's original study, where was the naive participant always seated?
Last or next-to-last
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what was the final prod given to participants in Milgram's study?
'You have no other choice, you must continue'
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why does social support help people resist social influence?
All answers are correct
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What term refers to how conformity to the majority can sometimes create social change?
Normative social influence
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What is the augmentation principle in minority influence?
How members of the minority make personal sacrifices
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