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Question 1
What is conformity?
- A change in behaviour, ideals, or beliefs to fit in with a group
- A change in behaviour caused by a direct order
- A permanent change in private beliefs but not public behaviour
- A refusal to follow group norms
Question 2
Which type of conformity involves a temporary change in public behaviour while private views stay the same?
- Compliance
- Internalisation
- Identification
- Informational social influence
Question 3
Informational social influence most often leads to internalisation.
- True
- False
Question 4
Normative social influence is mainly driven by...
- The desire to be accepted by the group
- Belief that the group has better information
- The ambiguity of the situation
- A desire to be accurate
Question 5
Which percentage of participants in Asch's baseline study conformed at least once?
- 75%
- 36%
- 12.5%
- 32%
Question 6
In Asch's disrupted unanimity variation, adding a confederate who disagreed with the majority increased conformity.
- True
- False
Question 7
Increased task difficulty in Asch's study led to increased conformity because...
- The situation was ambiguous, making informational social influence more likely
- Participants feared being rejected by the group
- The confederates were unanimous
- Participants were told to give wrong answers
Question 8
What is a social role?
- A role people play subconsciously as members of society, with expectations of appropriate behaviour
- A role assigned randomly in a psychology experiment
- A temporary change in public behaviour
- A belief adopted to fit in with a group
Question 9
In Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment, participants were randomly allocated to the roles of prisoner or guard.
- True
- False
Question 10
Why did Zimbardo's prison study end after six days?
- The guards harassed prisoners so severely that the study had to stop
- The prisoners escaped from the mock prison
- The researchers ran out of funding
- All participants refused to continue
Question 11
What is a limitation of Asch's study caused by its artificial line-judging task?
- The findings may not generalise to real-life situations where conformity has more important consequences
- It only applies to collectivist cultures
- Participants could not be deceived
- It cannot explain why people conform in groups
Question 12
The explanation for conformity based on the desire to be accepted by a group is called __________ social influence.
Fill in the blank
Question 13
What did Milgram's research focus on?
- Obedience
- Conformity
- Social roles
- Aggression
Question 14
What was a major weakness of the sample in Zimbardo's prison study?
- It used only male American students, so results could not be generalised
- It used only female students from Europe
- It included participants of many ages and backgrounds
- It was too large to draw valid conclusions from
Question 15
In Milgram's study, what percentage of participants continued to the maximum 450V shock?
- 65%
- 50%
- 75%
- 85%
Question 16
How did Milgram ensure the participant always became the teacher?
- The drawing of names was rigged
- Participants volunteered for the teacher role
- The learner refused to be the teacher
- The experimenter selected the strongest participants
Question 17
Whose real-life research supported Milgram's conclusion about obedience to authority figures?
- Bickman
- Zimbardo
- Asch
- No research has supported Milgram's findings
Question 18
In Sheridan and King's study, what happened when the 'learner' was a puppy and the shocks were visibly real?
- 20 of 26 participants gave the maximum shock
- Only 5 of 26 participants obeyed
- All participants refused to continue
- The study had to be stopped after a few trials
Question 19
Why is Zimbardo's prison simulation said to lack ecological validity?
- It was simulated and lacked features of real prison life such as racism and violence
- It took place in a real prison with real prisoners
- It used only female prisoners
- It did not include guards
Question 20
Milgram's study was a lab experiment, so it is easy to replicate and produces reliable results.
- True
- False
Question 21
Zimbardo's participants gave informed consent and were allowed to withdraw at any time.
- True
- False
Question 22
In Milgram's study, participants were deceived because the electric shocks were actually ____.
Fill in the blank
Question 23
According to the biological approach, psychology should be the study of ____ behaviour.
Fill in the blank
Question 24
Which statement is a basic assumption of the biological approach?
- Behaviour is caused by biological structures and processes
- Behaviour is caused by unconscious conflicts
- Behaviour is learned through reinforcement
- Behaviour is determined by free will
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