Exam 8: Conformity: Influencing Behavior

In social psychology,the change in behavior resulting from the real or imagined presence of others is known as

Given the role of informational and normative social influence processes in contributing to participants' willingness to shock a confederate learner ,which of the following situations would yield the least obedience?

The concept of social norms refers to

Pierre joins the other concertgoers in giving the symphony a standing ovation,even though he thought the performance was merely adequate.The next morning,Pierre confides to his girlfriend that the performance was "satisfactory,but not overwhelming." In joining the standing ovation,Pierre displayed what kind of conformity?

According to several replications of Asch's line studies twenty-five and forty years after his original studies were conducted,there is some evidence that in the U.S.and Britain,people are

Which of the following comparisons represents the strength dimension as defined by social impact theory (Latané,1981)?

Examination of the percentage of ads since the 1950s showing people in various stages of undress indicates that

According to the authors of your text,the actions of Adolf Eichmann,the Nazi official responsible for transporting Jews to death camps,can best be described as

During the Middle Ages,victims of the imaginary illness "dancing manias" lost all inhibitions and whirled wildly through the streets.During the twentieth century,modern Americans fell prey to the misdeeds of a "phantom anesthetist" who entered homes and gassed the inhabitants.According to your text,how is mass psychogenic illness most different today from how it was in the Middle Ages?

Taking into account research on factors that increase informational social influence,which game contestant is most likely to yield to the informational social influence provided by teammates or the audience?

Women learn what is considered to be an attractive body in their culture from family,friends,and

Execution teams who work at prisons tend to deny personal responsibility for the executions and state that they are just following orders.Such justifications for taking a human life illustrate that when people obey authority

When people conform in attitudes or behaviors in order to be accepted and liked by others,social psychologists say that ____ has occurred.

What do the following situations share in common: a million listeners of Orson Welles' broadcast of War of the Worlds become panic-stricken,believing it is a real event; a case of mass psychogenic illness occurs in Tennessee; people in the Middle Ages became "infected" with dancing manias.All are examples of

Mika Haritos-Fatouros (1988)conducted interviews with former torturers of prisoners who were incarcerated in Greece during the late 1960s.Haritos-Fatouros found that prison authorities

In ambiguous situations,we sometimes fall prey to the influence of others' attitudes or behaviors,and bring our own attitudes or behaviors into line with theirs.This type of conformity arises from

Recall that in a study by Baron et al.(1996),participants in one condition were asked to select perpetrators after a lineup in conditions of low ambiguity,so that participants in the control condition made very few mistakes.Recall also that some participants were told that the task was one that was being normed for use by the police department and were offered $20 if they were the most accurate,while others were told that it was just a laboratory task under development.This condition of the study found that

Evidence suggests that in recent decades,sociocultural expectations of attractiveness for men,as depicted in the media,have become

In a series of experiments,why did Solomon Asch (1951,1956)ask participants to judge the lengths of lines which were clearly different from one another? Asch

In an alternative version of his original experiment,Stanley Milgram used two experimenters,who began to disagree with each other when the participants administered 150 volts and the learner began to complain.In this variation,participants refused to continue.According to the authors of your text,this variation demonstrates the importance of ____ in influencing obedience.