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AQA GCSE Psychology: Social Influence
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- 1. Multiple ChoiceThis experimenter was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person.This was Leon FestingerThis was Solomon AschThis was Philip ZimbardoThis was Stanley Milgram
- 2. Multiple ChoiceAn experiment in which "participants" unanimously choose the wrong line. It is clear to you that they are wrong, but they have all given the same answer.Stanley Milgram Shock ExperimentLeon Festinger Cognitive Dissonance ExperimentSolomon Asch Line ExperimentPhilip Zimbardo Prison Experiment
- 3. 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
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhich researcher's work was key to our understanding of obedienceAschMilgramEichmannDurkheim
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is a difference between obedience and conformity?
In conformity, there is a perceived difference in status between the one who conforms and the group.
In obedience, there is a difference in status between the one who obeys and the one who makes the request.
Conformity requires strict adherence to the rules, whereas obedience does not.
Obedience is an indirect request, whereas conformity is a direct request.
Conformity involves agreeing to change in response to a request, whereas obedience involves an indirect request for agreement.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Conformity is best described as
performing simple tasks more quickly in the presence of others.
adjusting our behavior or thinking toward a group standard.
neglecting critical thinking in order to preserve group harmony.
losing self-awareness in group situations that foster anonymity.
- 7. Multiple ChoiceThe Asch Effect refers tohow an individual agrees with the majority, even if the majority is wronghow an individual disagrees with the majority, even if the majority is rightthe tendency to adapt to the people arounda person obeying a person of authority even if the action is wrong
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhen is a person less likely to conform?when the group is unanimouswhen the person feels incompetentwhen the group will not see how the person respondswhen the person admires the group
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe tendency to withhold assistance when other people are present.authoritariansocial decisionsocial loafingBystander effect
- 10. Multiple ChoiceSocial loafing refers to...an individual’s tendency to slack off when working in a group rather than working alone.an individual's tendency to work alone rather than in a groupan individual's tendency to be concerned about others' opinionsan individual's tendency to NOT be concerned with others' opinions
- 11. Multiple ChoiceIn Stanley Milgram's research on obedience, the "teacher" routinelyresisted the authority figureobeyed the authority figureconformed to the other participant's answers
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following explains the behavior of normally law-abiding people who act destructively when they are part of a crowd?
group polarization
mere exposure effect
deindividuation
fundamental attribution error
- 13. Multiple ChoiceBystander behaviour (bystander apathy) in an emergency situation meansEveryone feels a responsibility to helpThere are a lot of bystanders.Bystanders are more likely to behave prosocially.A victim is less likely to be helped.
- 14. Multiple ChoiceProsocial helping situations in lab studies tend to be unrealistic.truefalse
- 15. Multiple ChoiceThe ‘victim’ in Piliavin's study was always a female student.truefalse
- 16. Multiple ChoiceIn Piliavin's study, a victim who appeared ‘deserving’ was more likely to get help.truefalse
- 17. Multiple ChoiceIn Piliavin's study, the proportion of trials in which the ‘drunk’ victim received help was:50708790
- 18. Multiple ChoiceSocial and dispositional factors both play a role in bystander behaviour.truefalse
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThe UK is usually considered to be a collectivist culture.truefalse
- 20. Multiple ChoiceSocial loafing is lower in collectivist cultures.truefalse
- 21. Multiple Choice‘Individuals working in groups put in less effort than when working alone’ is a description of:CultureDeindividuationA dispositional factorSocial loafing
- 22. Multiple ChoiceSome of Milgram’s participants refused to obey for moral reasons.truefalse
- 23. Multiple ChoiceSocial loafing is a dispositional explanation of crowd influence.truefalse
- 24. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is a dispositional factor in crowd and collective behaviour?PersonalitySocial loafingCultureDeindividuation
- 25. Multiple ChoiceIn Latané et al.’s study of social loafing the participants had to pull a rope.truefalse
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