Have an account?
Skip to Content
Build your own quiz
23 questions
Show Answers
See Preview
- 1. Multiple Choice
When a person experiences guilt or discomfort because he or she realizes that he or she is not being truthful with their friends, then this person may be experiencing:
Normative Social Influence
Cognitive Dissonance
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Chameleon Effect
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhat term means changing one's behavior in response to an authority figure's command?ObedienceConformityPeer pressureEvolution
- 3. Multiple Choice
What term means acting in ways that fit with group norms and customs?
Obedience
Conformity
Peer pressure
Society
- 4. Multiple Choice
Why is conformity often good?
It helps the group to stand out.
It stops the group from fighting.
It helps the group to function smoothly.
It stops people from being too weird.
- 5. Multiple Choice
People usually try to conform to group norms because they...
want to belong and feel secure
want to feel unique and special
do not want to be seen as a rebel
are trying to prove that they are good
- 6. Multiple Choice
What is the dark side of conformity?
People might go along with bad ideas.
People might try to change things too quickly.
People might never become wise.
People might feel trapped.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which researcher's work was key to our understanding of obedience?
Asch
Milgram
Eichmann
Durkheim
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhich researcher's work was key to our understanding of conformity?AschMilgramEichmannDurkheim
- 9. Multiple Choice
Failure to take action because of the presence of others is an example of:
Altruism
Social Loafing
Polarization
Bystander Effect
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhy can't psychologists recreate Milgram's experiment?It's protected under copywrite lawIt's unethicalIt's not cost-effectiveThe procedure has been destroyed
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat did the electric shock experiment show?Most people will obey orders, even when it harms others.Morality is more important to people than being obedientMost people prefer social acceptance than to be correct.Conformity can lead to obedience
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhat did the line comparison experiment reveal?Most people will obey orders, even when it harms others.Morality is more important to people than being obedientMost people prefer social acceptance than to be correct.Conformity can lead to obedience
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which phenomenon was demonstrated when participants in Stanley Milgram’s experiment chose to administer the highest possible level of voltage charge to the learners?
conformity
obedience
deindividuation
group cohesion
lowballing
- 14. Multiple Choice
The Stanford Prison experiment demonstrated:
The negative consequences of groupthink.
How far people are willing to go when instructed to do something by an authority figure.
The power that situations can have in changing how people feel, think, and behave.
The boost that social facilitation can provide to individual performance.
- 15. Multiple Choice
Zimbardo's most famous experiment involved...
A fake prison in the Stanford University basement.
Observing whether the children to whom he gave marshmallows could delay gratification.
Showing people lines and observing their degree of conformity to the judgement of others.
Ordering participants to give supposed electric shocks to fake participants in order to judge their obedience to authority.
- 16. Multiple Choice
Asch's experiments focused on the question of...
How people act out ascribed roles
What influences people to carry out antisocial behaviors
Obedience to an authority figure
Conformity in a group setting
- 17. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements best describes Normative Social Influence?
Going along with a group of people because we want to be liked by them.
Going along with a group of people because we don't know what we're doing.
Going along with other people even though we don't agree.
Going along with other people because we accept their views.
- 18. Multiple Choice
What did Asch find about unanimity?
Conformity stayed the same whether the majority was unanimous or not.
A unanimous majority had the greatest effect on conformity.
When a partner disagreed with the majority conformity increased.
A divided majority had the greatest effect on conformity.
- 19. Multiple Choice
In relation to Zimbardo's prison experiment, which statement best describes the behavior of the prisoners?
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 of the prison.
They supported each other.
- 20. Multiple Choice
In term's of Milgram's findings, 65% refers to the proportion of participants who:
Refused to continue at some point in the experiment.
Went all the way to the top of the shock scale.
Disobeyed at the very beginning of the procedure.
Went up to 300v and then refused to continue.
- 21. Multiple Choice
What did Milgram find out about proximity in his variations?
Obedience increased when the experimenter issued his instructions over the phone.
Obedience decreased when the teacher and learner were physically closer.
Most participants obeyed even when they had to put the learner's hand on the shock plate.
The physical proximity of experimenter, teacher and learner had the smallest effect.
- 22. Multiple Choice
Milgram's real participants were...
Subjected to real electric shocks.
Forced to give real electric shocks.
Seated in front of a realistic looking electric shock machine.
Swift to reject the experimenter's request to shock innocents.
- 23. Multiple Choice
The original idea for Milgram's experiment was based on...
The defense of Nazi officer Eichmann during the Nuremberg Trials that he was only following orders.
An interest in the civil disobedience marches of the 1960s.
A desire to show that Americans were not in any way like the Nazis.
A fear that he and other Americans would be conscripted to go to Vietnam.
- Answer choicesTagsAnswer choicesTags