Question 1

People feel __________ when they appear too different from others,but also feel __________ when they appear exactly like everyone else.

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A)  comfortable; uncomfortable
B)  uncomfortable; comfortable
C)  comfortable; comfortable
D)  uncomfortable; uncomfortableE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 2

Vince is a soldier in the military and has been stationed in Afghanistan.He has been ordered to kill any rebel insurgents who engage in anti-government violence.According to the principles of obedience that Milgram found,Vince will have more difficulty obeying orders when

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A)  everyone else in his troop is carrying out the orders given to them.
B)  the victims are right in front of Vince than 500 metres away.
C)  his commanding officer is beside him in the field.
D)  his commanding officer is the top-ranked officer in Vince's division.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 3

Milgram's variation in which two "fellow participants" (actually confederates) defied the experimenter's commands demonstrates that

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A)  conformity can be constructive.
B)  obedience to a legitimate authority is absolute.
C)  peers have little influence over an individual's likelihood of obeying a legitimate authority.
D)  obedience can be liberating.E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 4

The autokinetic phenomenon refers to

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A)  a false group consensus.
B)  an illusion of perceived movement.
C)  a form of self-efficacy.
D)  an influential bias in social judgment.E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 5

Charles has been asked to make a judgment as to how long a line is and state it publicly to a group of others.He indicates that he believes the line is 20 cm long.The four other people in the group all state they think it is around 7 cm long.Charles is then given a chance to change his answer if he wants.What is Charles most likely to do in this case?

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A)  He is likely to change his answer to around 7 cm long as well.
B)  He is likely to change his answer to longer than he originally predicted.
C)  He is likely to change his answer to halfway between his original guess and the guess of the group.
D)  He is not likely to change his answer and sticks with his 20 cm long response.E) C) and D)
F) B) and C) D

Question 6

The fact that the voltage in Milgram's research increased in 15-volt increments allowed obedient participants to

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A)  take out their increasing aggression on the learner.
B)  reduce their dissonance somewhat as the experiment progressed.
C)  deliver whatever severity of shock they felt was appropriate.
D)  take out their increasing aggression on other participantsE) None of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 7

Which of the following has been found to increase the likelihood of conformity?

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A)  Making private responses following group pressure
B)  A high-status group
C)  Making a public commitment prior to group pressure
D)  A divided groupE) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 8

Personality characteristics best predict an individual's

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A)  likelihood of performing a specific action in a given situation.
B)  likelihood of performing a specific action repeatedly over time.
C)  average behaviour across many situations.
D)  specific actions only to specific known situations.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D) C

Question 9

When social pressure threatens a person's sense of ______________,he or she is likely to rebel.

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A)  belonging
B)  freedom
C)  achievement
D)  meaning or purpose in lifeE) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 10

A social psychological experiment in which the participants were present only because they were earning extra credit and completely uninterested in the experimental situation might be lacking in

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A)  experimental realism.
B)  internal validity.
C)  exaggerated realism.
D)  reactivity.E) A) and D)
F) B) and D) A

Question 11

Research on group size and conformity has generally shown that

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A)  as group size increases,conformity decreases.
B)  as group size increases,conformity increases.
C)  group size influences conformity in teenagers but not in adults.
D)  the conformity of females is more significantly influenced by group size than the conformity of males.E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 12

Milgram is to _____________ as Sherif is to _____________.

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A)  conformity; obedience
B)  conformity; norm formation
C)  obedience; conformity.
D)  obedience; norm formationE) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 13

Experiments have demonstrated that attempts to restrict a person's freedom often produce nonconformity called

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A)  individuation.
B)  the boomerang effect.
C)  the consensus effect.
D)  personality assertion effect.E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 14

Sherif is to the study of ______________ as Asch is to the study of ______________.

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A)  conformity; compliance
B)  compliance; conformity
C)  norm formation; obedience
D)  norm formation; conformityE) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 15

In a follow-up series of experiments after his initial study,Milgram made the learner's protests more compelling by having him complain of a heart condition,then scream and plead for release,and finally refuse to answer.With this added condition,

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A)  a majority of participants still fully obeyed the experimenter's demands.
B)  teachers were more reluctant to deliver initial shocks.
C)  learners became more real and personal to the teacher.
D)  fewer participants went to 450 volts.E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 16

A year after his original study,Sherif's participants were retested alone and gave answers that supported the original group's norm.This suggests that the process involved was really

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A)  reactance.
B)  compliance.
C)  obedience.
D)  acceptance.E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 17

Why do people conform?

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A)  They want approval from elders.
B)  They want to be right.
C)  Conforming boosts the ego.
D)  Conforming ensures a high social status within the group.E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 18

When William McGuire and his Yale University colleagues invited children to "tell us about yourself," they found that the children were most likely to mention their

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A)  sex.
B)  nationality.
C)  distinctive attributes.
D)  most common personal characteristics.E) A) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 19

What is "mood linkage"?

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A)  A form of social contagion
B)  A form of the Honey Phenomenon
C)  A source of people's emotionality
D)  A source of people's hopefulnessE) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 20

Chartrand and Bargh (1999) found that participants in an experiment who were asked to work alongside another person who occasionally rubbed her face were unwittingly more likely to rub their face.They called this

Accepted Answer

A)  the chameleon effect.
B)  mood linkage.
C)  compliance.
D)  automatic processing.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Vince is a soldier in the military and has been stationed in Afghanistan.He has been ordered to kill any rebel insurgents who engage in anti-government violence.According to the principles of obedience that Milgram found,Vince will have more difficulty obeying orders when

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Milgram's variation in which two "fellow participants" (actually confederates) defied the experimenter's commands demonstrates that

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People feel __________ when they appear too different from others,but also feel __________ when they appear exactly like everyone else.

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