Conformity
Social Resistance
Minority influence
Experiments
Misc. Questions
100

True or False: conformity can happen even if pressure is imagined.

True

100

In social resistance, "allies" help us become more confident to think and act freely.

This is called social support.

100

When the minority opinion becomes the majority opinion

What is the Snowball Effect?

100

This experiment on obedience to authority relied on shocking confederates.

What is Milgram's experiment?

100
Zimbardo did his study at this university.

What is Stanford University?

200

Getting the newest iPhone to look cool like all the other students is an example of ___ social influence.

What is normative social influence?

200

The extent to which individuals believe they can control the events in their lives.

What is locus of control theory?
200

When convincing a majority, the minority influence might come off too strong or rigid about their beliefs. They need ___ to soften their approach.

What is flexibility?

200

This experiment showed how people conform to fit in with a group, even knowing they are wrong.

What is the Asch line test?

200
This type of parenting normally leads to authoritarian personality types.

What is harsh parenting?

300

You publicly, but not privately, going along with the majority influence’s beliefs or behaviors to gain social approval.

What is compliance?

300

A person believing they failed their driver's test because their examiner is a jerk is an example of __.

What is External Locus of Control?

300

Holding the same beliefs over a long period of time.

What is diachronic consistency?

300

This experiment on social roles and conformity showed the power of the situation on influencing behavior.

What is Zimbardo's Prison Experiment?

300

Milgram did his experiment at his university which is included as one of his variations. 

What is Yale University?

400

There are three variables which affect conformity: group size, unanimity and ____.

What is talk difficulty?

400

"I passed my GCSEs because I studied so much this weekend!" is an example of ___.

What is Internal Locus of Control.

400

Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức's self-immolation is an example of this technique for convincing a majority.

What is commitment?

400

In this variation of a famous experiment, a confederate who looked professional was changed with a confederate who looked like an average person to give orders.

What is a Variation of Milgram's experiment?

400

When you permanently adopt a new behavior or attitude because you genuinely believe in it.

What is internalisation?

500
A fire alarm rings during a test. Matt looks around about to get up and leave, but sees that everyone, including the teacher, is continuing the test as normal. Matt sits back down and continues to write. This is an example of ____.

What is informational social influence?

500

True or False: we will break free from conformity if the dissenter is shown to obviously be less skilled or intelligent.

True.

500

Martin Luther King advocating to end racial discrimination along with his peers despite dealing with violence shows ___ consistency.

What is synchronic consistency?

500

This experiment was used to test out the strength of consistency in minority influence.

What is Moscovici's Blue-Green Slide study?

500

When people displace their anger onto 'weaker' targets instead of the original target.

What is scapegoating?

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