Question 1

Psychological reactance theory may help explain why

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A)   underage drinkers are more likely to report having been drunk in the past year than are legal-age drinkers.
B)   a toddler, ignoring a toy, protests and demands that toy back when a playmate begins to play with it.
C)   the demand for and value placed on an object is greater when the object is perceived to be rare or hard to get.
D)   all of these choices.

Question 2

Dr. Jennings hates to wear a suit to teach his classes. Nevertheless he does so to win the approval of the senior faculty at his institution. Dr. Jennings's behaviour is an example of

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A)   identification.
B)   informational social influence.
C)   normative social influence.
D)   acceptance.

Question 3

Sociologist David Phillips and colleagues report that _____________ increase after well-publicized and celebrity suicides.

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A)   suicides
B)   private airplane crashes
C)   fatal auto accidents
D)   all of these choices

Question 4

Tisha started going to church only because her boyfriend wanted to go. She continues to go now, even though she broke up with him, because she really gets a lot out of the service. What principle does Tisha's experience illustrate?

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A)   the false consensus effect
B)   the foot-in-the-door principle
C)   acceptance can increase cohesion
D)   acceptance sometimes follows compliance

Question 5

When Milgram varied his experiment so that teachers had to physically force the learner's hand onto a shock plate in order to administer punishment, compliance to the experimenter's orders

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A)   dropped to almost zero.
B)   dropped to 10 percent.
C)   dropped to 30 percent.
D)   actually increased to almost 80 percent.

Question 6

Both Asch's conformity studies and Milgram's obedience studies illustrate

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A)   the power of the situation.
B)   the fact that we are cognitive misers.
C)   the prevalence of conforming personalities in American culture.
D)   all of these choices.

Question 7

Milgram is to _____________ as Sherif is to _____________.

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A)   conformity; obedience
B)   conformity; norm formation
C)   obedience; conformity.
D)   obedience; norm formation

Question 8

In a variation on the Asch experiments, you announce your answer to a question but you do so before anyone else in the group has a chance to respond. All the subsequent responses disagree with yours. Now you have a chance to reconsider and possibly change your answer. According to research, you will probably

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A)   question the procedure and ask to be last in line next time.
B)   modify your response so that it comes closer to everyone else's but is still different.
C)   tell yourself privately that you were right the first time but publicly change your response.
D)   stick to your original answer.

Question 9

_________________ is to "going along with the crowd" as _______________ is to "learning from the crowd."

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A)   Normative influence; concern for social image
B)   Informational influence; normative influence
C)   Normative influence; asserting uniqueness
D)   Normative influence; informational influence

Question 10

Researchers have explored several areas in search of the conformer. Which of the following is one of those areas?

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A)   Religion
B)   Personality
C)   Sexual orientation
D)   Race

Question 11

Charles has been asked to make a judgment as to how long a line is and state it publicly to a group of others. He indicates that he believes the line is 20 cm long. The four other people in the group all state they think it is around 7 cm long. Charles is then given a chance to change is answer if he wants. What does Charles do?

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A)   Changes his answer to around 7 cm long as well.
B)   Changes his answer to longer than he originally predicted.
C)   Changes his answer to halfway between his original guess and the guess of the group.
D)   Does not change his answer and sticks with his response of 20 cm long.

Question 12

When people of two cultures are nearly identical,

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A)   they will not notice their differences.
B)   they will still notice their differences.
C)   they cannot notice their differences.
D)   None of the above

Question 13

Compliance is

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A)   reactance.
B)   a change in behaviour to go against a request.
C)   conformity.
D)   conformity that involves publicly acting in accord with social pressure while privately disagreeing.

Question 14

Concern for _______________ produces normative influence, whereas ________________ produces informational influence.

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A)   social image; the desire to be correct
B)   being correct; social image
C)   deindividuation; individuality
D)   acceptance; obedience

Question 15

John wants to go out with Sue, but Sue is playing "hard-to-get." John is all the more intrigued and motivated to get a date with Sue. Explain this scenario in terms of reactance theory.

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Question 16

Jacobs and Campbell (1961)  used the Sherif paradigm to study the transmission of norms. They found that inflated estimates lasted for

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A)   three generations.
B)   five generations.
C)   ten generations.
D)   more than ten generations.

Question 17

In Milgram's original studies of obedience, he found that participants who were ______ were most likely to be obedient and deferential.

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A)   the victims of past abuse
B)   of low status
C)   female
D)   professionals used to giving orders

Question 18

Chartrand and Bargh (1999)  found that participants in an experiment who were asked to work alongside another person who occasionally rubbed her face were unwittingly more likely to rub their face. They called this

Accepted Answer

A)   the chameleon effect.
B)   mood linkage.
C)   compliance.
D)   automatic processing.

Question 19

Sirima is usually skeptical about the Internet messages she receives, but one day she receives five copies of an email petition from five different friends. She decides to add her name to the petition and passes it on to ten more friends. This scenario can be described as an example of

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A)   compliance.
B)   collusion.
C)   acceptance.
D)   affective tolerance.

Question 20

Strangers will be more likely to answer your personal questions if you type them up on your university's letterhead stationery than if you simply ask them verbally. This illustrates that people are more obedient when

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A)   there is no group influence.
B)   they get a typed request.
C)   they perceive that there is institutional authority behind a request.
D)   all of these choices.

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