Exam 8: Conformity: Influencing Behavior

Mark is a Democrat.He just joined a Welfare Reform Committee made up of nine Republicans.Mark holds a minority opinion on this issue.If Mark wants his opinion to influence the group's final recommendations,he should

According to Latané' s (1981)social impact theory,Katy will binge eat with her sorority sisters because

Your textbook discusses recent developments in how most college campuses are attempting to deal with the problem of binge drinking.The technique currently in favor is based on the use of

Why would Muzafer Sherif,a social psychologist,choose the autokinetic effect (a perceptual illusion)to study social conformity? He wanted

According to the authors of your text,what is the most plausible explanation as to why the U.S.soldiers followed their lieutenant's orders to massacre the citizens of the peaceful village of My Lai during the Vietnam War?

According to Latané's (1981)social impact theory,as group size increases from two to three members,the impact will increase ____ if a group increases from twenty-nine to thirty members.

____ refers to the occurrence of similar physical symptoms in a group of people when there is no known physical cause for the symptoms.

Fads such as hula hoops,miniskirts,mohawks,tattoos,and body piercing represent responses to

Recall the cross-cultural conformity research conducted by J.W.Berry (1967)and others.Based on this research,who would be least likely to conform to other group members' opinions?

In a field study by Shultz and his colleagues (2007),several households in a neighborhood received weekly feedback about their level of energy consumption relative to their neighbors.In one condition of the study,participants also received feedback based on injunctive norms.How did the researchers manipulate the injunctive norm?

Not all members of the radio audience of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast panicked immediately.Indeed,some didn't panic until they looked out of the window and saw empty streets; others didn't panic until they saw streets full of traffic.It was after checking out the situation that these citizens decided that the Martians had indeed invaded Earth.This example illustrates that contagion

Imagine that you are on the Olympics Planning Committee.Nine out of ten of the committee members hold the same opinions.However,one member,Laura,consistently deviates from the group's opinion.How is your group most likely to act toward Laura to bring her in line with the group's opinion? The group will

How does conformity to normative social influence differ from conformity to informational social influence?

Which of the following variations of Stanley Milgram's (1963)original obedience experiment provides the strongest evidence of the operation of normative conformity when participants administer electric shocks to a confederate learner?

Studies of the importance of normative social influence are particularly noteworthy in that they show that people conform even ____.

Which situation below best exemplifies the tenet of social impact theory that immediacy is directly related to conformity?

Brett Silverstein and colleagues (1986)conducted an archival analysis of photographs of women appearing in Vogue and Ladies Home Journal from 1901 to 1981.These researchers found that

In a study by Pope and his colleagues (2000),men were asked to alter a computer image of a male body to accurately depict their own,their ideal body,and the type of body they thought women preferred.Results from this study suggest that men saw their bodies accurately,but

Informational social influence does not always produce conformity,but informational conformity is more likely in some situations than in others.What factors increase conformity to informational social influence?

People who hold minority opinions influence the majority group through