Exam 7: Social Influence: Being Influenced Byand Influencingothers

The only real participants in Milgram's studies were the ______.

Which of the following persons would be LEAST likely to help someone in distress?

When there is diffusion of responsibility for individual behavior, crowd members tend to act ______.

One of the major reasons many political candidates use lots of television commercials during political campaigns is to cash in on the effectiveness of ______.

You enter an empty elevator. The next three people who enter the elevator all turn and face backward. You decide that since they are facing backward, they must know something you don't, so you turn around and face backward too. This is an example of ______.

Define conformity and social norms and briefly discuss the factors that influence conformity.

Identify and briefly describe the seven factors that may foster blind obedience to perceived authority.

In graduate school, Milgram was profoundly affected by the work of ______.

Many people are more concerned about the approval of their supervisors than their own morality.

Laws are derived from explicit ______.

A student fails a math test, and upon receiving his "F" he immediately jumps up in front of the class and accuses the teacher of being a lousy teacher and giving an unfair test. His behavior is best described as ______.

Explicit and implicit rules that reflect social expectations and influence the way people behave in social situations are called ______.

Prior warning that a persuasive appeal is coming tends to ______.

When it comes to advertising, sex sells, but only in some situations.

A woman is MOST likely to be helped by a man if she is ______.

A type of persuasive communication that influences behavior on the basis of feelings that are aroused instead of rational analysis of the issues is known as ______.

Deindividuation tends to make people more altruistic.

Which of the following would NOT increase the likelihood that a person would obey an illegal, immoral, or unethical order?

Of the 40 men in Milgram's study, how many complied with the scientist throughout the study, believing they were delivering the maximum voltage shocks?

People will do things as members of a mob that they would never do on their own.