SOCIAL INFLUENCE- Conformity/Obedience

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In Asch's original study, the naive participant was always seated:
Last or next-to-last
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What did Asch find about group size?
Conformity increased with group size, but only to point
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What did Asch find about unanimity?
A unanimous majority had the greatest effect on conformity
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What did Asch find about task difficulty?
Conformity increased when a task became more difficult
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The Stanford prison study investigated:
Conformity to social roles
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What was Zimbardo's role in the Stanford prison study?
Both prison superintendent and lead researcher
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The role of guard and prisoner were decided:
Randomly
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MIlgram recruited his participants by:
Placing adverts in local papers and sending out flyers
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Three people were involved in Milgram's procedure. They were::
Experimenter, teacher, learner
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The final prod given to the participants was:
'You have no other choice, you must continue'
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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
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What did Milgram find out about proximity in his variations?
Obedience decreased when the teacher and learner were physically closer
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What did Milgram find about location in his variations?
Obedience decreased when the study was conducted in a run-down part of town
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Bickman's (1974) study supported Milgram because he found that:
People more often obeyed someone dressed in a security guards uniform
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'Believing you are carrying out the wishes of someone else' is a brief description of:
Agentic state
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The massacre of unarmed civilians at My Lai by American soldiers can be explained by:
Both agentic state and legitimacy of authority
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A problem with the agentic state explanation is that:
It can't explain why some people in Milgram's study didn't obey
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What did Asch find about group size?

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Conformity increased with group size, but only to point

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What did Asch find about unanimity?

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What did Asch find about task difficulty?

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The Stanford prison study investigated:

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