Conformity

Question 1

Conformity

Answer 1

a change in behavior or belief as the result of real or imagined group pressure

Question 2

Types of conformity

Answer 2

acceptance; compliance; obedience

Question 3

Acceptance

Answer 3

acting and believing in accord with social pressure

Question 4

Compliance

Answer 4

publicly acting in accord with an implied or explicit request while privately disagreeing

Question 5

Obedience

Answer 5

acting in accord with a direct order or command

Question 6

Muzafer Sherif

Answer 6

studies on norm formation

Question 7

Norm formation

Answer 7

how people come to agree on something

Question 8

Stanley Milgram

Answer 8

obedience studies

Question 9

Solomon Asch

Answer 9

studies on group pressure

Question 10

Mood linkage

Answer 10

being happy around happy people; chameleon effect

Question 11

Mass hysteria

Answer 11

suggestibility to problems that spread throughout a large group

Question 12

Experimental realism

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experiments are real and impactful on participants

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Mundane realism

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study procedures and materials are similar to events in the real world

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Autokinetic phenomenon

Answer 14

apparent movement of a stationary point light in the dark

Question 15

Milgram original study

Answer 15

administer shocks; 65% administered shocks; “only following orders”

Question 16

Informational influence

Answer 16

conformity occurs when people accept evidence about reality

Question 17

Culture

Answer 17

different cultures socialize people to be more or less conforming

Question 18

Normative influence

Answer 18

conformity; the desire to fulfill others’ expectations