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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