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6. The effects of social support where shown Asch's studies when:
- Th participants wrote their answers down rather than stated them out loud
- A dissenter gave the correct answer all the time
- The size of the majority was increased from 2 to 14
- The task was more difficult because the lines were closer
7. Legitimacy of authority is a good explanation of cultural differences in obedience because:
- Some cultures are more traditionally respectful of authority than others
- All
- Some cultures are less traditionally respectful of authority than others
- Cultures differ in the ways they raise children to respect authority figures
8. A problem with the agentic state explanation is:
- It is not as useful as legitimacy of state
- It can't explain why some people in Milgrim's study did not obey the experimenter
- There is no research support
- It can't explain why the proportion of people in Milgrim's study who obeyed the experimenter was so high
9. 'Believing you are carrying out the wishes of someone else' is a brief description of:
- Informational Social Influence
- Agentic state
- legitimacy of authority
- Situational theory of obedience