Conformity and Minority Influence

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1.	Conformity mainly affects
[a]	Public behaviour
[b]	Private beliefs
[c]	Both
[d]	Neither

2.	Asch's study looked at conformity in
[a]	An ambiguous situation
[b]	An unambiguous situation
[c]	A situation which was both ambigious and unambiguous
[d]	None

3.	The phrase 'child of its time' refers to the fact that
[a]	Children are more conformist than adults
[b]	Time of day is a potential extraneous variable in conformity experiments
[c]	The findings relate to a particular historical period
[d]	The research methods used are outdated

4.	Normative social influence refers to situations where a person goes along with the majority
[a]	Because the person wants to be accepted by the majority
[b]	Because the person genuinely believes the majority to be right
[c]	Because there is no clear answer
[d]	Because the majority told the person to

5.	Moscovici et al. found that minority influence was greatest when
[a]	Opinions were expressed in public
[b]	Opinions were expressed in private
[c]	Only single - sex groups were involved
[d]	Confederates answered first

6.	Minority influence is affected by
[a]	Consistency
[b]	Patterning
[c]	Flexibility
[d]	All of the above

7.	Social crytoamnesia refers to
[a]	A form of mental illness, where the individual fears the minority
[b]	Stealing things from someone else
[c]	Forgetting the source of innovation
[d]	None of the above

8.	Investigating bias occurs because
[a]	Investigating unconsciously produce cues about how to behave
[b]	Investigators have expectations about the study
[c]	Both
[d]	Neither

9.	Investigator bias can be controlled by
[a]	Single blind
[b]	Double blind
[c]	Use of placebos
[d]	Counterbalancing

10.	A practise effect is an example of
[a]	An order effect
[b]	The Hawthorne effect
[c]	The social desirability effect
[d]	Counterbalancing

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