SOCIAL INFLUENCE- Conformity/Obedience

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

  • Reducing the distance between authority and the participant increased obedience
  • Changing to a higher status location increased obedience
  • People more often obeyed someone dressed in a security guards uniform
  • Increasing the disance the distance between the participants reduced obedience
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2. Which statement best describes the behaviour of the prisoners?

  • Theys supported each other
  • They resisted the cruelty of the guards throughout the study
  • They became more withdrawn and anxious as the study progressed
  • They made it very difficult for the guards to enforce the rules if the prison

3. Which of the following best describes NSI?

  • Going along with other people even though we don't agree
  • Going along with other people because we accept their views
  • Going along with a group of people because we want to be like by them
  • Going along with a group of people because we don't know what we're doing

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

  • There is no research support
  • It is not useful as legitimacy of authority
  • 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

5. What did Asch find about task difficulty?

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