Social influence

Question 1

Who conducted the Stanford Prison experiment

Answer 1

Zimbardo

Question 2

What did Zimbardo’s experiment intend to test?

Answer 2

The fundamental attribution error - tendency to attribute causes of behaviour to personal factors over situational conditions

Question 3

What is the term for “switching to group level self- categorization?”

Answer 3

Depersonalisation

Question 4

What is the term for “loss of self awareness in groups?”

Answer 4

Deindividualisation

Question 5

Authoritarian submission states

Answer 5

People should do as they’re told by legitimate authority

Question 6

Authoritarian aggression states

Answer 6

People who do not do as they’re told should be punished

Question 7

A preference for tradition is social relationships is called

Answer 7

Conventionalism

Question 8

What are the three steps that are suggested to lead to one developing an authoritarian personality

Answer 8

Primitive socialisation –> Social conformity –> Dangerous world belief –> Authoritarian

Question 9

Cognitive Dissonance is

Answer 9

The feeling of uncomfortable tension from holding two conflicting beliefs simultaneously

Question 10

Importance, strength of conflict and inability to rationalise cause…

Answer 10

an increase in cognitive dissonance

Question 11

Cognitive Dissonance can be fixed by…

Answer 11

Changing behaviour and justifying behaviour by adding new cognitions

Question 12

4 key Bio-ethical principles are…

Answer 12

• Respect for autonomy
• Beneficence
• Non-maleficence
• Justice

Question 13

What is both the term, and the effect that is described with “force exerted per person deceases as group size increases”

Answer 13

Ringleman effect, Social Loafing

Question 14

The bystander effect states…

Answer 14

A lone bystander is more likely to help than a group of bystanders

Question 15

Latane and Rodin conducted an experiment where people could overhear a woman struggling. What were the findings of this experiment and what effect did the findings back?

Answer 15

That lone subjects helped more often, the bystander effect

Question 16

What were Latane and Darley’s findings on peoples responses in emergencies?

Answer 16

The presence of others inhibits peoples responses in an emergency. More people = slower response

Question 17

Diffusion of responsibility is the idea that

Answer 17

The presence of others allows responsibility to transfer

Question 18

What is the term for when the presence of other makes one self conscious of an action?

Answer 18

Audience inhibition

Question 19

The idea that “if others seem unworried, the situation is assumed less dire” is an example of what?

Answer 19

Social influence

Question 20

What is the term for the tendency to attribute others negative behaviours to negative internal dispositions?

Answer 20

Correspondence bias

Question 21

What is the term for the tendency to attribute personal positive outcomes to internal causes and negative outcomes to external factors?

Answer 21

Self-serving bias