Quiz 7 - Conformity & Obedience(1) Flashcards
__________________ is a change in behaviour that is due to another person’s orders.
Obedience
In his conformity experiment, how did Solomon Asch get the majority of participants to agree on an answer?
All but one were the researcher’s confederates who agreed in advance to provide a particular wrong answer.
In the context of studies of conformity and obedience, what are ‘experimental confederates’?
People recruited by the experimenter to behave in prescribed ways to influence conformity or obedience.
Mustafer Sherif conducted conformity studies based on an optical illusion. What was that optical illusion?
Autokinesis – in which a spot of light appears to move when the subject is in a dark room.
With respect to conformity studies, which of the below is associated with higher levels of conformity?
High status of confederates.
This is a story. There is a sign on the entry of a hotel in northern Thailand which reads: No Durians! In the context of the lecture on conformity, a person who flaunts this directive and brings the smelly fruit into the hotel would be best described as having:
Psychological reactance.
Which would best describe Milgram’s view of social psychology?
He was a situationalist who emphasises the social situation to understand behaviour.
Milgram’s studies were about obedience, but what sort of study did his subjects believe they were participating in?
The effects of punishment on the learning of word associations.
Which condition of Milgram’s studies yielded the highest levels of obedience?
Subject watches a peer give shocks.
NOT- Two other teachers continue. (High but not the highest)
Participants who were assigned the role of administering electric shocks in Milgram’s study were:
Recruited from the community.
