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1

You go out to dinner with three of your good friends. Friends 1 and 2 order dessert. Next, Friend 3 orders dessert. When the waiter gets to you, even though you are dieting, you order dessert. Why?
A)conformity.
B)compliance.
C)obedience.
D)persuasion.
2

When you have complied to a request and have internalized a belief that your behavior is justified, you are showing
A)private obedience.
B)private acceptance.
C)public compliance.
D)public obedience.
3

After Marilyn Monroe's suicide there were 200 more suicides in the United States than was typical. This was due to the suspected effects of
A)mass hysteria.
B)mass destruction.
C)mass suggestibility.
D)mass ignorance.
4

The Salem witch trials may be an example of
A)mass ignorance.
B)mass compliance.
C)mass destruction.
D)mass hysteria.
5

The "teacher/learner" paradigm, which has been extensively used by researchers to investigate a variety of phenomena, was used by
A)Asch, to investigate conformity.
B)Milgram, to investigate obedience.
C)Bandura, to investigate social learning theory.
D)Zimbardo, to investigate the power of the situation.
6

One salient factor in Milgram's study on obedience was the experimenter. When the experiment was varied so that the experimenter gave orders over the phone, obedience
A)dropped to nothing.
B)was greatly reduced.
C)was unchanged.
D)increased.
7

Milgram's study was so successful because it used
A)the bogus pipeline technique.
B)the low-ball technique.
C)the door-in-the-face technique.
D)the foot-in-the-door technique.
8

Milgram found
A)ignorant people accept commands more readily than smart people.
B)high-status people accept commands more readily than low-status people.
C)attractive people accept commands more readily than unattractive people.
D)low-status people accept commands more readily than high-status people.
9

In a variation on Asch's study of group pressure, researchers had subjects go first, followed by the confederates. In this case, how many people conformed after voicing their opinions?
A)almost none.
B)30 %
C)60%
D)90%
10

When a person conforms to gain acceptance, we say they are bowing to
A)informational influence.
B)qualitative influence.
C)normative influence.
D)proximal influence.
11

Groups often reject people who consistently deviate from social roles. These people appear to be unaffected by
A)proximal influence.
B)normative influence.
C)informational influence.
D)qualitative influence.
12

Concern for social image involves _____ influence; the desire to be correct involves _____ influence.
A)normative; informational.
B)qualitative; proximal.
C)informational; normative.
D)proximal; qualitative.
13

Personality is a good predictor of behavior when
A)the decision is important.
B)social influences are strong.
C)attitudes are weak.
D)social influences are weak.
14

Cross-cultural replications of obedience studies have found the highest rate of obedience in
A)Japan.
B)America.
C)China.
D)Munich.
15

If your parents tell you that you can't drink until you are 21, you may well go out drinking before then. Psychologists refer to this as
A)repression.
B)catharsis.
C)reactance.
D)reaction formation.
16

Baumeister and others argue that a man may become frustrated over his restricted freedom if the woman he's trying to have sex with refuses his advances. Such a man may become sexually aggressive due to
A)reactance.
B)catharsis.
C)repression.
D)reaction formation.
17

An increased desire for forbidden activities is often the result of
A)catharsis.
B)reactance.
C)repression.
D)reaction formation.
18

As humans, we seem driven to be not only different from "average-others" but, more importantly, BETTER than "average-others." This is due to
A)self-serving bias.
B)the fundamental attribution error.
C)the actor/observer effect.
D)self-presentation.
19

The _____ technique is defined as a technique for gaining compliance with a request by first persuading a person to comply with a small request, then following up with a larger request.
A)bogus pipeline.
B)low-ball.
C)foot-in-the-door.
D)door-in-the-face.







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