Exam 7: Conformity

Professor Hildebrand just gave the first exam back to his students. Many in the class are convinced that one of the questions he asked had more than one correct answer. In fact, 13 students from the class show up to his office hours to protest the question. Professor Hildebrand is convinced that there is only one correct answer, and so he tries to convince the larger group of students that he is right. He will be most likely to convince this group of his point of view if he

Why has the Milgram obedience experiment been subjected to doubt with regard to the ethics of appropriate research in psychology? What other replications of Milgram emerged in the twenty-first century, and compare their conformity with Milgram's.

Many participants in the social influence study conducted by ____ gave public responses that they privately knew to be inaccurate.

Which of the following is not an example of social influence?

Prentice and Miller (1996) found that most college students overestimate how comfortable their peers are with alcohol on campus. This misperception is an example of

Meeus and Raaijmakers found that ____% of the participants in their study were willing to deliver all 15 harassing remarks.

When Cheryl is with her supervisors, she obeys their decisions without question. But when she is with employees under her supervision, she is aggressive and demanding. Cheryl is likely to be described by social psychologists as having

______ states that social influence depends on the strength, immediacy, and number of source persons relative to target persons.

All of the following reduced the level of obedience in the Milgram experiment except

American mothers in 1924 seemed to value ____ more than they do today.

What is the sole concept that does not increase compliance when using the door-in-the-face technique?

Often overlooked in Asch's conformity study is the fact that participants refused to conform ____% of the time.

While driving down a street in a residential neighborhood, Aaron sees a sign in a yard that says, "Slow down! Jimmy and I like to play in the street!" This is quite a bit different than normal signs that admonish a driver to slow down. Aaron immediately slows his car down to a safe 15 miles per hour, and stays at that speed until the end of the street. What compliance technique was used to get him to slow down?

______ show a high level of interdependence within their social network.

If American children raised in ways consistent with mainstream American culture and Chinese children raised in ways that were consistent with traditional Chinese culture were placed in the same classroom, which of the following statements would probably be true ?

Which of the following has not been demonstrated by research on mimicry?

Which of the following is not one of the emotions a person is likely to feel after being ostracized?

A cultural orientation in which independence, autonomy, and self-reliance take priority over group allegiances is called

As observed by Asch (1956), the optimal number of confederates, above which conformity did not significantly increase, was

Which of the following statements best illustrates the relationship between ostracism and conformity?