Exam 8: Conformity: Influencing Behavior

If an executioner were to be questioned about how he could live with himself after taking someone's life, one likely response (according to the authors of your text) is

Going along with the crowd (e.g., doing the ice bucket challenge, smoking pot, polar plunging) because of a fear of social exclusion is an example of

An important feature of informational social influence is that it often leads to

During a drought, Lynne noticed that all of her neighbors had stopped watering their lawns even though there were no laws against it.Lynne was following a(n) ________ norm when she let her lawn turn brown, too.

Majorities tend to rely on ________, whereas minorities tend to rely on ________.

One of the major concerns about the Milgram studies on obedience was

Why would Muzafer Sherif, a social psychologist, choose the autokinetic effect (a perceptual illusion) to study social conformity? He wanted

Research by Baron et al.(1996) on the importance of accuracy indicates that the more important it is for people to be accurate, the

Milgram's studies on obedience to authority violated several ethical principles.These include all of the following EXCEPT

Consider the following (edited) excerpt from a James Thurber New Yorker piece: "Suddenly someone began to run.It may be that he had simply remembered… an engagement to meet his wife, for which he was now frightfully late.Whatever it was, he ran east on Broad Street.Somebody else began to run, perhaps a newsboy in high spirits… Another man broke into a trot… A loud mumble gradually crystallized into the dread word 'dam.' 'The dam has broke!' The fear was put into words by a little old lady in an electric car, or by a traffic cop, or by a small boy: Nobody knows who… Two thousand people were abruptly in full flight…" This literary excerpt illustrates the phenomenon known as

The "social norms" approach to reducing binge drinking on college campuses relies primarily on the use of

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

In a recent study about how to promote energy conservation, Nolan and colleagues (2008) found that simply telling people that their neighbors conserve energy was a more effective means of reducing energy consumption than telling them other reasons why they should conserve.Why did this message work the best?

After the Milgram study, there were several changes made to the way psychologists are allowed to conduct research.Describe at least three of the differences between the APA ethics code now and then.

Itsuki, a Japanese teenager, has withdrawn from all social interaction.He is referred to as a hikikomori.The most likely reason for his withdrawal is as a result of

According to the authors, in part because the experimental procedures were so ________, it was difficult for participants in Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments (e.g., Milgram, 1974) to abandon the "Obey legitimate authority" norm in favor of the norm that says, "Do no harm."

According to research presented in the text (Baron et al., 1996), participants were asked to select perpetrators after a lineup in conditions of high ambiguity; the perpetrator wore different clothing in the lineup than in the original photo, and the slides were shown very quickly.Recall also that some participants were told that the task was one that was being designed for use by the police department and were offered $20 if they were the most accurate, while others were told that it was just a laboratory task under development.This study demonstrated that

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