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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