Social Influence
____ is the act of changing one's beliefs or behaviors to match group norms.
Conformity
In terms of membership size, which is the largest type of religious organization?
Churches
What is the most powerful motivator for people not to leave cults?
Fear
Partook in cult like behaviors such as ritualistic cross burnings, initiation rituals, pseudo-religious foundation, and use of arcane hierarchy.
Ku Klux Klan
Cults used to mean any religion outside of ____.
Christianity
Whose experiments studied normative social influence?
Solomon Asch
What is a term that psychologists use for cults?
High-control groups
Once you pour a bucket into the ocean, it loses its distinctiveness. What is this an example of?
Identity fusion
Believed their suicide was a means of leaving their human forms in order to board a spaceship that rode behind the Hale-Bopp come.
Heaven's Gate
In 1969, the Ku Klux Klan was protected under ___ so long as members didn’t advocate for imminent lawless action.
The first amendment
What is the discomfort experienced when existing beliefs or actions contradict each other called?
Cognitive dissonance
What is the assumption that all groups labelled "cults" are the same?
Cult essentialism
What technique used by cults makes members of cults stay even though they realize they made a mistake by joining?
Foot-in-the-door
Built victims’ trust up until they convinced them into giving the members their personal information and explicit content, which the members used as blackmail.
764
Private internalization is characteristic of which social influence?
Informational
Contradictions and doubts are suppressed in favor of ____ to form unity.
Groupthink
The misconception that only weak people join cults is called ____.
The "seeker" persona
What are the four types of control in Stevan Hassan's BITE model?
Behavior, information, thought, and emotion
Their compound in Waco served as a refuge from the imminent apocalypse.
Branch Davidians
What is a person's internal mental model, beliefs, and framework used to interpret and navigate the world called?
Map of reality
What is it called when a stationary spot of light in a dark room appears to move?
Autokinetic effect
___ is the act of breaking down one's sense of self to create an interdependency.
Coercive persuasion
What are the three factors of the expectancy theory?
Expectancy, instrumentality, and valence
Started as a yoga school, changed into a doomsday cult releasing a deadly gas against the general population.
Aum Shinrikyo
In terms of commitment levels, which religious organization has the most exclusive membership?
Sects