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1
You go out to dinner with three of your good friends. Friends 1 and 2 order dessert. Next, Friend 3 orders dessert. When the waiter gets to you, even though you are dieting, you order dessert. Why?
A)conformity.
B)compliance.
C)obedience.
D)persuasion.
2
When you have complied with a request and have internalized a belief that your behavior is justified, you are showing
A)private obedience.
B)private acceptance.
C)public compliance.
D)public obedience.
3
After Marilyn Monroe's suicide, there were 200 more suicides in the United States than was typical. This was due to the suspected effects of
A)mass hysteria.
B)mass destruction.
C)mass suggestibility.
D)mass ignorance.
4
Which of the following was NOT found to affect obedience in Milgram's studies?
A)whether or not the authority was part of a respected institution
B)a fellow disobedient participant
C)the authority's closeness and legitimacy.
D)gender.
5
The "teacher/learner" paradigm, which has been extensively used by researchers to investigate a variety of phenomena, was used by
A)Asch to investigate conformity.
B)Milgram to investigate obedience.
C)Bandura to investigate social learning theory.
D)Zimbardo to investigate the power of the situation.
6
One salient factor in Milgram's study on obedience was the experimenter. When the experiment was varied so that the experimenter gave orders over the phone, obedience
A)dropped to nothing.
B)was greatly reduced.
C)was unchanged.
D)increased.
7
Milgram's study was so successful, because it used
A)the bogus pipeline technique.
B)the low-ball technique.
C)the door-in-the-face technique.
D)the foot-in-the-door technique.
8
Milgram found
A)ignorant people accept commands more readily than smart people.
B)high-status people accept commands more readily than low-status people.
C)attractive people accept commands more readily than unattractive people.
D)low-status people accept commands more readily than high-status people.
9
Which of the following tends to MINIMIZE the degree of conformity found in Solomon Asch-type experiments?
A)having a group of 3-5 confederates
B)having an ally (i.e., a participant who gives the correct answer).
C)announcing publicly one's answer
D)none of these
10
When a person conforms to gain acceptance, we say they are bowing to
A)informational influence.
B)qualitative influence.
C)normative influence.
D)proximal influence.
11
Groups often reject people who consistently deviate from social roles. These people appear to be unaffected by
A)proximal influence.
B)normative influence.
C)informational influence.
D)qualitative influence.
12
Concern for social image involves _______________ influence; the desire to be correct involves _______________ influence .
A)normative; informational
B)qualitative; proximal
C)informational; normative
D)proximal; qualitative
13
Personality is a good predictor of behavior when
A)the decision is important.
B)social influences are strong.
C)attitudes are weak.
D)social influences are weak.
14
Cross-cultural replications of obedience studies have found the highest rate of obedience in
A)Japan.
B)America.
C)China.
D)Munich.
15
If your parents tell you that you can't drink until you are 21, you may well go out drinking before then. Psychologists refer to this as
A)repression.
B)catharsis.
C)reactance.
D)reaction formation.
16
Baumeister and others argue that a man may become frustrated over his restricted freedom if the woman he's trying to have sex with refuses his advances. Such a man may become sexually aggressive due to
A)reactance.
B)catharsis.
C)repression.
D)reaction formation.
17
An increased desire for forbidden activities is often the result of
A)catharsis.
B)reactance.
C)repression.
D)reaction formation.
18
People from _______________ countries are most likely to conform to those around them.
A)collectivistic.
B)communistic.
C)individualistic.
D)socialist.
19
The ______________ technique is defined as a technique for gaining compliance with a request by first persuading a person to comply with a small request, then following up with a larger request.
A)bogus pipeline
B)low-ball
C)foot-in-the-door
D)door-in-the-face







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