chapter 6

Question 1

comformity

Answer 1

changing ones behavior or belief in response to explicit or implicit influence from others

Question 2

the power of conformity

Answer 2

undergraduate women experience or imagine experiencing three sexist comments while completing a group task. actual or expected confrontation was measured
- actual: 45% confronted at least one common (only 9% confronted all 3)
- 81% anticipated confronting at least one

Question 3

informational social influence

Answer 3

based on the desire to be correct; ise others as a source of information
- typically leads to PRIVATE ACCEPTANCE
- Sherif (1953): norm formation study

Question 4

Sherif (1953)

Answer 4

autokinetic effect
- If people are presented with an ambiguous stimulus, will perceptions be affected by others

Question 5

chameleon effect

Answer 5

Mimicking someone else’s behavior

Question 6

mass hysteria

Answer 6

suggestibility to problems that spread throughout a large group of people

Question 7

when will people conform to information social influence

Answer 7

the situation is ambiguous, the situation is a crisis, other people are experts

Question 8

normative social influence

Answer 8

based on the desire to be liked or accepted by others
- typically leads to public conformity
- ascus (1951, 1955) studies

Question 9

obedience

Answer 9

a person changes a behavior because they are ordered to by an authority

Question 10

conformity across cultures

Answer 10

greater conformity in collectivist cultures

Chen, Benedikt Frey, presidente (2021): is the level of individualism related to how people responded to lockdown requirements