Exam 7: Conformity

Mika Haritos-Fatouros (1988)conducted interviews with former torturers of prisoners who were incarcerated in Greece during the late 1960s.Haritos-Fatouros found that prison authorities

Persuasive arguments about _______ are most likely to cause female participants to appear less conforming than male participants.

_______ conformity is to the desire to be right as _______ conformity is to the desire to be liked.

Does providing individuals with information about social norms related to behaviours we would like to change help to reduce those behaviours? Describe studies that have tried this and the major drawback with this approach.

If you wanted to resist an influence attempt,social impact theory (Latané,1981)suggests that you should

In essence,normative social influence arises from humans' fundamental

Roger Buehler and Dale Griffin (1994)had participants interpret an ambiguous newspaper report about the shooting of a suspect by police.Participants were then told that others had assigned 75% of the blame for the tragedy to the police and 25% to the suspect.Some participants conformed to others'' interpretations,while other participants did not.All participants then read the story again and provided a second interpretation of events.Results demonstrated that participants who initially conformed with other participants' versions of events _______,whereas those who initially refused to conform with other participants' versions _______.

Muzafer Sherif (1936)used the autokinetic effect to measure participants' estimates of the apparent movement of a stationary spot of light.In what sense did Sherif's findings illustrate informational social influence?

Which was NOT one of the instructions (prods)used by the experimenter to encourage obedience by the participants in Milgram's experiments.

In a conversation before class,you find that you are the only person in your group to favour tuition increases.The other five students with whom you are talking strongly oppose tuition increases.What might you do to persuade them of your point of view? What form of social influence would you rely on?

Informational social influence occurs because

Rachel is attending Catholic mass for the first time with her best friend Maria.Rachel is unfamiliar with when to sit,when to kneel,or when to stand,and doesn't know when to respond to what the priest says and when to remain silent.When it is time for parishioners to receive Communion,Rachel looks quizzically to Maria,who silently shakes her head.Rachel remains seated while the rest of the congregation files toward the altar.This situation best exemplifies

Students who had watched the film of Milgram's obedience study showed an increase in ________ especially if they were ________.

What did Canadian Forces Master Seaman Biden,who spoke out against the Military's use of an outdated Anthrax virus,have in common with the deviant accomplice in Stanley Schacter's "Johnny Rocco" study?

According to information presented in your text,which of the following statements regarding social definitions of the "ideal" body is FALSE?

According to research by Alice Eagly (1987),when men and women _______,gender differences in conformity virtually disappear.

Which of the following types of conformity pressures induced most of the participants in Stanley Milgram's obedience studies (Milgram,1974)to deliver escalating and life-threatening shocks to an innocent learner?

According to Bibb Latané's (1981)social impact theory,people are most likely to conform when

Rod Bond and Peter Smith (1996)conducted a meta-analysis of 133 Asch line judgment studies conducted in 17 countries.They found that conformity was higher in _______ cultures because normative social influence _______.

In the nineteenth century,audience members who knew the opera intimately served as "claques," or experts who signaled others in the audience when to applaud,or as "bisseurs," who signaled when to call for encores.These experts served as a source of _______ for less sophisticated audience members.