Exam 2: Leadership Theories and Social Psychology Experiments

In Stanley Migram's experiment on the role of obedience, the ____________ was the person who worked with Milgram and played the part of an authority figure.

Milgram reported that a participant's tendency to obey the experimenter decreased dramatically

What is the 'glass ceiling'?

What is the social construction of leadership?

What is post-heroic leadership theory?

For the Ohio State leadership studies the perfect leader:

Social Facilitation occurs:

An important difference between Asch's experiment in which participants judged the length of lines and Sherif's experiment in which participants judged the movement of light was that

What is a transformational leader?

A transactional leader is one who:

In Asch's study of perceptual judgment involving the length of lines, naive participants conformed __________________ of the time to the false judgments of the confederates.

Groupthink is defined as:

_____________ set up an experiment, known as the Stanford Prison experiment, where people plaed the role of a prison guard. The goal was to observe if this authority position would cause them to act differently.

In leadership trait theory what is a trait?

In Stanley Milgram's experiment on the role of obedience, the ___________ was the subject who was being observed and did not know what the experiment was about or what was being studied.

According to Soloman Ache, in his experiment on conformity ____% of the subjects gave the wrong answer because the group unanimously also gave the wrong answer.

Participants' tendencies to obey the experimenter's commands to shock a victim were highest when the experimenter was ___________ and the victim was ___________.

Contingency theory is based on the assumption that the ideal leader:

To believe that Asch's compliant participants were particularly spineless people is to

The effect of group size on conformity has been explained by _____________ theory.