Exam 6: Conformity and Obedience

The experimenter in Milgram's study used all EXCEPT which of the following verbal prods to encourage participants to continue?

Who is most likely to be pleased with being called a "conformist?"

Johnny is talking to his new roommate,Ken,when Ken starts scratching his nose.Within a few seconds,Johnny starts scratching his nose too.This is an example of

Although Lenny thinks the speed limit of the highway should be 80 instead of 70 miles per hour,when the policeman tells him to slow down to 70 he does.This is an example of

A classmate across the room yawns and then several other students yawn.This is an example of

The spread of bodily complaints within a school or workplace with no organic basis for the symptoms is called

Although he made a promise to himself to not take illegal drugs,Tom gave into peer pressure at a party to smoke marijuana because he did not want to be rejected by the others.Tom's conformity is a result of

How did Burger's (2009)replication differ from Milgram's original research?

According to the text,Asch's experiments lacked _______ but did possess _______.

A person who both acts and believes in accord with social pressure is demonstrating

Chartrand and Bargh (1999)found that participants in an experiment who worked alongside another person who occasionally rubbed her face were unwittingly more likely to rub their face.They called this

Bill conforms because he fears that he will be rejected by others in the group if he doesn't.His conformity results from

Jim decides to change his answer on his math homework after his friends explain to him why his original answer was incorrect.This is an example of

When Regina returned to the U.S.after two years in Madagascar,she felt uncomfortable and out of place.She was experiencing

Mullen and her colleagues (1990)found that the average baseline jaywalking rate _______ in the presence of a non-jaywalking confederate.

If you clean your room only because your parents order you to,your behavior is a form of

How did Asch's studies of conformity differ from those of Sherif?

Which is not one of following is false?

In a variation of the Milgram study,the learner was in the same room as the teacher.Under these conditions

At what point does adding additional group members yield diminishing returns in conformity research?