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6. According to Karau and Williams (1993), social loafing can be limited by....

  • Deciding individuals inputs as a group
  • Have smaller groups
  • Identifying individuals inputs
  • Anonymising individuals inputs

7. What does Latane (1981) believe in disagreement with Asch (1955)?

  • Each person adds to the minority's impact
  • Each person lessens the minority's impact
  • Each person adds to the majority's impact
  • Each person lessens the majority's impact

8. What is social loafing?

  • Lose a sense of personal identity in a group
  • Presence of others increases arousal and subsequent dominant responses
  • Reduction in individual effort when people work in a group
  • Encouragement from others leads to greater arousal at success

9. What are the three-component processes of deindividuation?

  • Situational input, internal state, behavioural consequences
  • Dispositional input, internal state, behavioural factors
  • Situational input, external state, behavioural consequences
  • Dispositional input, external state, behavioural factors

10. When can loafing be reduced?

  • Being in a smaller group
  • Being in a larger group
  • Communicating online
  • Communicating offline

11. Who suggested the social impact theory, in opposition to Asch's?

  • Latane
  • Milgram
  • Strodtbeck
  • Allport

12. At how many people does Asch (1955) suggest the majority effect levels off?

  • 2
  • 6
  • 4
  • 3

13. What percentage of noise reduction was found per person in a group (Latane et al., 1979)?

  • 47%
  • 18%
  • 29%
  • 34%

14. What is a criticism of Strodtbeck's mock juries?

  • Women weren't included
  • The sample wasn't representative
  • The data was fabricated
  • Not very ecologically valid

15. How does Zajonc suggest that performance on simple tasks can be improved?

  • In a dark room
  • In silence
  • Mere presence of others
  • When alone

16. What is deindividuation theory not usually associated with?

  • Peers at school
  • Psychological state online
  • Mob violence
  • Religious ceremonies

17. What is the alternative explanation (Monteil & Huguet, 1999) for drive theory?

  • Increased arousal leads to narrowing of attention on to relevant cues
  • Increased arousal leads to recessive responses
  • Increased arousal leads to group agreement
  • Increased arousal leads to more agreement with similar people

18. What is drive theory?

  • Encouragement from others leads to greater arousal at success
  • Presence of others increases arousal and subsequent dominant responses
  • Reduction in individual effort when people work in a group
  • Lose a sense of personal identity in a group