Going with the Crowd
This is changing your behavior or opinions to match those of a group.
What is conformity?
This occurs when a group prioritizes agreement over good decision-making.
What is groupthink?
This is changing your behavior because of a direct order from someone perceived to have authority.
What is obedience?
This is being less likely to help when other people are present.
What is the bystander effect?
Bobo the doll is associated with what behavioral theory?
Social learning theory
This type of social influence occurs when people conform because they want to fit in or avoid rejection.
What is normative social influence?
This occurs when people perform simple or familiar tasks better when others are watching.
What is social facilitation?
This psychologist conducted the famous shock experiment on obedience.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
This occurs when people assume someone else will take action.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
This psychologist conducted the Bobo doll experiment.
Who is Albert Bandura?
This type of social influence occurs when people believe the group knows something they do not.
What is informational social influence?
This occurs when people contribute less effort because responsibility is shared.
What is social loafing?
Participants were more likely to obey because the person giving instructions appeared...
legitimate
to have authority
to be willing to take the blame
This 1964 case inspired research on why groups sometimes fail to help during emergencies.
What is the Kitty Genovese case?
Children who watched an adult behave aggressively were more likely to do this.
What is imitate the aggressive behavior?
This psychologist conducted the famous line-length experiment demonstrating conformity.
Who is Solomon Asch?
A musician performs better in front of a crowd because of this concept.
What is social facilitation?
In Milgram’s study, this percentage of participants continued to the maximum voltage.
65%
Name one of the psychologists who studied helping behavior experimentally after the Genovese case.
Who are John Darley and Bibb Latané?
According to Bandura, people are especially likely to imitate behaviors shown by these individuals.
role models
In Asch’s experiment, conformity became less likely when this happened.
What is having at least one other person give the correct answer?
Or being able to answer privately.
A test group quickly agrees on the same answer because no one wants conflict; this is an example of this concept.
What is groupthink?
This increase in shock levels helped explain why participants continued obeying.
What is gradual escalation of the task?
What is being demonstrated in the following scenario: A student collapses in a crowded school hallway. Hundreds of students see it happen, but most keep walking because they assume a teacher or someone else will help first.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
What is being demonstrated in the following scenario: After a professional athlete publicly begins wearing a new type of protective sports equipment, many younger athletes begin wearing the same equipment—even though no coach requires it and there is no reward for doing so.
What is observational learning