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6. Which of the following is a type of conformity?

  • Unanimity
  • Obedience
  • Internalisation
  • Normative social influence

7. What did Milgram find out about proximity in his variations?

  • Most participants obeyed even when they had to put the learner's hand on the shock plate
  • Obedience decreased when the teacher and learner were physically closer
  • Obedience increased when the experiment issued his instructions over the phone
  • The physically proximity of experimenter, the teacher and learner had the smallest effect

8. 'Believing you are carrying out the wishes of someone else' is a brief description of:

  • Agentic state
  • Informational social influence
  • Situational theory of obedience
  • Legitimacy of authority

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

  • Went all the way to the top of the shock scale
  • Went up to 300v and then refused to continue
  • Refused to continue at some point in the procedure
  • Disobeyed at the very beginning of the procedure

10. MIlgram recruited his participants by:

  • Placing adverts in local papers and sending out flyers
  • Putting up posters in the local neighbourhood
  • Word of mouth
  • Drawing names out of a hat

11. Three people were involved in Milgram's procedure. They were::

  • Experimenter, learner, Mr Wallace
  • Experimenter, teacher, learner
  • Participant, confederate, learner
  • Experimenter, confederate, learner

12. What did Asch find about group size?

  • Conformity deceased as group size increased
  • Conformity increased with group size, but only to point
  • Conformity kept on increasing with group size
  • Increasing group size had no effect on conformity

13. The massacre of unarmed civilians at My Lai by American soldiers can be explained by:

  • Neither agentic state nor the legitimacy of authority
  • Agentic state
  • Both agentic state and legitimacy of authority
  • Legitimacy of authority

14. A problem with the agentic state explanation is that:

  • There is no research support
  • It can't explain why some people in Milgram's study didn't obey
  • It can't explain why the proportion of people who obeyed the experimenter in Milgram's study was so high
  • It is not useful as legitimacy of authority

15. Which of Milgram's variations produced the lowest obedience?

  • Member of public stands in for experimenter
  • Experimenter issues instructions by telephone
  • Teacher forces learner's hand onto shock plate
  • Study is transferred to run-down office block

16. Legitimacy of authority is a good explanation of cultural difference in obedience because:

  • Cultures differ in the way parents raise their children to view authority than others
  • Some cultures are less traditionally respectful of authority than thers
  • All of the above
  • Some cultures are more traditionally respectful of authority than others

17. The Stanford prison study investigated:

  • Compliance
  • Conformity to social roles
  • Obedience to authority
  • Rebellion

18. Which of the following is an explanation for conformity?

  • Identification
  • Informational social influence
  • Compliance
  • Internalisation

19. Bickman's (1974) study supported Milgram because he found that:

  • Increasing the disance the distance between the participants reduced obedience
  • People more often obeyed someone dressed in a security guards uniform
  • Changing to a higher status location increased obedience
  • Reducing the distance between authority and the participant increased obedience

20. What did Asch find about task difficulty?

  • Increasing task difficulty had no effect on conformity
  • The task was too difficult for the naive participants
  • Conformity increased when a task became more difficult
  • Conformity decreased when the task became more difficult