Exam 9: Cognitive Motivation: Social Motivation and Consistency

In Milgram's studies of compliance, he found evidence for all of the following EXCEPT:

Alice donated $1,000 to a charity anonymously. We would likely conclude that her behavior was:

In Asch's line comparison study, some participants did not appear different than other participants, called _____ social influence.

When is an individual most likely to be compliant with directions to do something he or she feels is wrong?

According to the experiments by Latané and Darley:

If we compare conformity with compliance we find:

Asch found in his line comparison study some participants assumed their judgment was incorrect, which is called _____ social influence.

Which of the following is NOT a major criticism of the cognitive dissonance theory?

Cialdini and colleagues (1975) concluded that the door-in-the-face effect was due to a motive called:

Which of the following is an unbalanced relationship?

Milgram argues that the basis for obedience or compliance is:

Upon what does bystander intervention LEAST depend?

Studies of postdecisional dissonance and selective exposure to information demonstrate all of the following EXCEPT:

In Milgram's original obedience study, _____ out of 40 participants went all the way to 450 volts.

In an emergency, everyone looks to others, who are looking to them, and thus everyone appears calm so we think it is not an emergency. Latané and Darley call this:

In a situation the presence of others takes the responsibility from the individual. Latané calls this:

Festinger developed _____ theory to explain cognitive consistency motivation.

According to Festinger, the method most chosen to reduce cognitive dissonance is:

Cognitive dissonance is aroused when:

A change in one's beliefs or behaviors as a result of real or imagined pressure from a group or individual is called: