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Multiple Choice Questions
1. Milgram’s studies explored _______; Asch’s studies explored _______. A. obedience; : 1198592
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Milgram’s studies explored _______; Asch’s studies explored _______.
A. obedience; conformity
B. conformity; norm formation
C. obedience; norm formation
D. conformity; obedience
2. While control participants were correct about line-length judgments more than 99% of the time in Asch’s conformity study, his naive participants conformed to the incorrect judgments of others ___% of the time.
A. 12
B. 37
C. 65
D. 87
3. Asch’s conformity experiments showed that most people
A. go along with others’ decisions.
B. conform even when wrong.
C. tell the truth even when others do not.
D. become confused when confronted.
4. The results of Asch’s study is startling because the study did not employ any
A. judgments about ambiguous stimuli.
B. groups larger than four persons.
C. experimental realism.
D. open, obvious pressure to conform.
5. Unkelbach and Memmert (2010) examined soccer matches across five seasons in Germany’s premier league. Results indicated that referees
A. referees rarely made mistakes when awarding yellow cards.
B. tended to favor the visiting teams.
C. awarded more yellow cards to the away teams in louder stadiums.
D. showed bias in awarding yellow cards in live games but not in laboratory settings.
6. The most famous and controversial experiments in social psychology were conducted by
A. Sherif.
B. Milgram.
C. Asch.
D. Watson.
7. The experimenter in Milgram’s study used all EXCEPT which of the following verbal prods to encourage participants to continue?
A. “It is absolutely essential that you continue.”
B. “You will be penalized if you refuse to go on.”
C. “You have no other choice, you must go on.”
D. “The experiment requires that you continue.”
8. When participants in Milgram’s experiments wanted to quit, they were given
A. shocks to keep them going.
B. money as an incentive to keep going.
C. up to four verbal prods to keep them going.
D. a reward for being one of the few to disobey.
9. When Milgram asked 100 psychiatrists, college students, and middle-class adults to predict the results of his experiment, the respondents said that they thought _______ would _______.
A. they themselves; never begin to administer the shocks
B. they themselves; disobey by about 135 volts
C. other people; disobey by about 210 volts
D. other people; would go all the way to 450 volts
10. When Milgram conducted his first series of experiments with a sample of 20- to 50-year-old men, he found that over 60 percent of them
A. refused to deliver shocks beyond 150 volts.
B. refused to deliver shocks past the 300-volt level.
C. went clear to 450 volts.
D. asked to be released from the experiment by 135 volts.
11. In follow-up experiments to his initial study, Milgram made the learner’s protests more compelling by having him complain of a heart condition, then scream and plead for release, and finally refuse to answer. With this added condition,
A. the majority of participants still fully obeyed the experimenter’s demands.
B. teachers were more reluctant to deliver initial shocks.
C. learners became more real and personal to the teacher.
D. fewer participants went to 450 volts.
