It is 1951, and you are required to participate in a perception experiment. You join seven others seated in a room. You are shown a 10-inch test line and must choose the line that matches it in length from a choice of three lines. The experimenter, Solomon Asch, is studying __________.
A. bystander apathy
B. social loafing
C. groupthink
D. conformity
Answer: D
You might also like to view...
The dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia was developed in part due to research on the effects of psychoactive drugs in the brain. Drugs that _____ dopamine activity in mesolimbic areas of the brain are associated with a reduction in _____ symptoms of schizophrenia such as _____.
A) enhance; negative; hallucinations B) reduce; positive; delusions C) enhance; positive; social withdrawal D) reduce; negative; poverty of speech
Children's emotional self-regulation improves in middle childhood in part because their __________ requires it.
A. phenotype B. environment C. biology D. genotype
The process of comparing an individual’s test score to a norm group is referred to as ______.
A. standard scoring B. norm-based interpretation C. transformation of scores D. statistical analysis
Automatic, unthinking consistency is a dangerous thing. Yet, in Influence, it was stated that many times we find it attractive. Why?
(a) It offers one shortcut to use in deciding how to behave when we don't have the time to examine all the evidence. (b) Because we have a deep-seated need for occasional danger. (c) Because even unthinking consistency is preferable to emotional responding. (d) None of the above.