Exam 8: Conformity: Influencing Behavior

Which of the following types of conformity pressures induced most of the participants in Stanley Milgram's obedience studies (Milgram,1974)to deliver escalating and life-threatening shocks to an innocent learner?

If an executioner were to be questioned about how he could live with himself after taking someone's life,one likely response (according to the authors of your text)is

In a conversation before class,you find that you are the only person in your group to favor tuition increases.The other five students with whom you are talking strongly oppose tuition increases.What might you do to persuade them of your point of view? What form of social influence would you rely on?

Emilio is designing an ad aimed at increasing seat belt use.He decides to incorporate slogans like,"It's great to buckle up!" rather than "35 percent of adults do not regularly wear a seat belt." Emilio is using ____ in this ad.

In which of the following cases is conformity due to information social influence least likely to occur?

When we conform to others' behaviors or attitudes because we believe that their interpretations of an ambiguous situation are more accurate than ours, ____ has occurred.

Results from a recent fMRI study replicated Asch's line judgment study.The results of the fMRI suggest that when participants judged line lengths and stated a correct answer when the others around them unanimously stated an incorrect answer,the area of the brain that was active was

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.How are these results being applied?

What is the relation between idiosyncrasy credits and normative conformity? Provide a concrete example of this relation.

The authors of your text describe a series of horrible telephone hoaxes that were done a few years ago in which a caller falsely identified himself as a police officer and had restaurant managers perform unnecessary strip searches and other degrading acts on subordinates.The fact that the managers he called actually did what he instructed them to do illustrates that people very readily

Recall that participants in a field experiment by Raymond Reno and his colleagues (1993)were more likely to properly dispose of a handbill left on their windshields when they saw a confederate pick up and dispose of a fast food bag.Results of this experiment reveal the power of ____ to reduce littering behaviors.

Informational social influence is to ____ as normative social influence is to ____.

In Japan some teens withdraw from all social interaction.These teens,called hikikomori,are likely to be so withdrawn as a result of

In a series of studies by Solomon Asch (1951,1956),when participants judged the lengths of lines alone rather than in a group of confederates,their judgments were accurate about 99 percent of the time.Still,when other participants made judgments in a group of people who gave the wrong answers,they reported incorrect judgments.These findings suggest that

Informational social influence is most likely to play a significant role in which of the following situations?

Marcia values the opinions and desires of both her parents and her close friends.When she's with her parents,she finds herself agreeing with them.When she's with her friends,she finds herself agreeing with them,even though they sometimes disagree with her parents.This change in Marcia's behavior represents the influence of Bibb Latané's (1981)concept of ____ on normative conformity.

Many U.S.troops present at My Lai later reported that they were frightened and confused about whether people in the villages were really enemy soldiers.Others reported that they didn't know whether the rifle fire they heard was from enemy guns or from the guns of fellow troops.Still,frightened and bewildered,many of them began setting fire to hooches and shooting old men,women,and children.This tragic example illustrates that informational influence is most likely to occur when

Explain how both informational conformity and normative conformity can contribute to eating disorders in women.

Bibb Latané's (1981)social impact theory is useful to social psychologists who study conformity because its tenets

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