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131.Regarding Milgram’s research obedience, which of the following statements FALSE?
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131.Regarding Milgram’s research on obedience, which of the following statements is FALSE?
A)Ethical concerns resulting from this research played a large role in the profession’s adoption of ethical guidelines to protect research participants.
B)Some people have interpreted Milgram’s findings as suggesting we do too good a job in our culture at socializing young people to be obedient to authority.
C)Milgram found that placing the “learner” in the same room as the “teacher” reduced obedience somewhat.
D)Subsequent research revealed that the majority of “teachers” in Milgram’s experiment did not believe that the “learners” were truly receiving significant levels of pain.
E)When Milgram repeated his study in a dingy storefront setting rather than a university setting, nearly half of his subjects complied with the experimenter’s demands.
132.In Milgram’s study, ______ percent of the original subjects obeyed every order. In subsequent studies, when the subjects instructed others to administer the shock, the obedience rate ______.
A)25; rose to about half
B)33; rose to more than half
C)65; rose to more than 90%
D)33; fell to about 20%
E)25; fell to about 10%
133.______ play(s) a role in explaining why people obey immoral commands.
A)Social validation, but not legitimization of authority,
B)Social comparison, but not legitimization of authority,
C)Legitimization of authority, but not social validation,
D)Legitimization of authority, but not social comparison,
E)Social comparison and legitimization of authority
134.The argument that “everyone’s doing it” may help explain why people obey immoral commands. This argument may be explained by the principle of
A)legitimization of authority.
B)cognitive dissonance.
C)social facilitation.
D)social validation.
E)groupthink.
135.As discussed in the text, Milgram’s findings raise important questions about all but one of the following?
A)legitimization of authority.
B)oversocialization of obedience in young people.
C)social validation of immoral behavior.
D)our capacity for destructive obedience.
E)troubling effects of groupthink.
136.Which of the following is the best definition of social facilitation?
A)the tendency for some people to have better social skills than others
B)the tendency for some people to facilitate the social skills of others
C)the superior ability of groups to solve problems compared to individuals
D)the tendency for people to perform better when others are present
E)the tendency for members of a team to work harder than when they work alone
137.Generalizing from research, we can predict that the presence of others will _______ performance on well-learned tasks and ______ performance on novel or challenging tasks.
A)decrease; have no effect on
B)increase; have no effect on
C)decrease; increase
D)have no effect on; decrease
E)increase; decrease
138.The tendency for people to reduce their efforts when working as part of a group is called
A)social inhibition.
B)social facilitation.
C)social intervention.
D)social loafing.
E)groupthink.
139.Janice leads a team of twenty employees. If Janice wants to reduce the chances of social loafing in her team, she should do all but which of the following?
A)increase the appeal of the team’s task
B)give public feedback on each team member’s good performance
C)give public feedback on each team member’s poor performance
D)evaluate performance for the group only
E)increase the visibility of each individual’s contribution in the group
140.Willem is a skilled pianist. He has recently started playing the violin. When an audience is present, Willem probably
A)performs better on both instruments.
B)performs worse on both instruments.
C)performs better on the violin only.
D)performs better on the piano only.
E)performs worse on the piano only.
