Exam 8: Conformity: Influencing Behavior

Felicia is initially the only member of the jury who believes that the defendant is innocent.After hearing and debating Felicia's arguments,the jury unanimously declares the defendant not guilty.The jurors' decision will most likely be characterized by

One of the major concerns about the Milgram studies on obedience was

An anti-drinking ad states,"Students at this school,on average,only drink three drinks per week." If someone typically drinks no alcoholic beverages per week,but after seeing the ad starts consuming more because they are "below average," this person is exhibiting the

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.Feedback about how much energy they used relative to their neighbors provided participants with ____.

The authors of your text discuss several factors that led to the high degree of obedience in the Milgram experiment.All of the following are implicated except

Research by Baron et al.(1996)on the importance of accuracy indicates that the more important it is for people to be accurate,

Based on your text,which of the following is the best example of obedience to authority based on normative social influence?

Milgram surveyed both a panel of Yale undergraduates and a panel of psychology professors before he conducted his original experiment.In these surveys,he found that

In the "Johnny Rocco" studies conducted by Schachter (1951),he found that when a confederate stubbornly deviated from the opinion of the rest of the group,the confederate then was more likely to

Recall that Solomon Asch (1951,1956)asked participants to estimate the lengths of lines.In response to the incorrect answers of others,some participants actually denied what their eyes saw.These studies provide evidence of

Even though the authors point to a number of situational variables that contributed to the destructive obedience of Stanley Milgram's participants (e.g.,normative and informational conformity pressures,conflicting norms),it might still be argued that people have,lurking deep within them,sadistic tendencies that can easily be elicited by situational variables.What experimental findings by Milgram call this "personal attribution" into question?

In essence,normative social influence arises from humans' fundamental

When the Supreme Court makes a decision,the most common decisions are ____,and the least common are ____.

Results from a recent fMRI study replicating Asch's line judgment study suggest that when the participants performed alone at judging lines,or they conformed to the wrong answer,the area of the brain that was active was

Public safety officials want to increase the use of seat belts among drivers,and have decided to show a television ad documenting the rising use of seat belts among drivers.This represents the use of ____ norms to change safety behaviors.

Recall that Bond and Smith (1996)conducted a meta-analysis of 133 Asch line judgment studies conducted in 17 countries.They found that conformity was higher in ____ cultures because normative social influence ____.

All of the following factors increase the impact of informational social influence except

Burger's (2009)replication of Milgram's studies on obedience to authority suggests that compared with people in the 1970s,people in 2006 were ____ likely to obey authority.

According to the authors of your text,once participants in Milgram's studies delivered the first shock to the learner,this created internal pressure to obey.This dissonance made it more difficult later for participants to

It could be argued that participants in Muzafer Sherif's (1936)study converged in their estimates of the amount of movement of a point of light because they were avoiding public embarrassment or social censure from other participants.Sherif demonstrated that this was unlikely when he found similar results