Social and Group Behavior Flashcards
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In group polarization, group discussion tends to shift members' initial positions toward:
Answer: A more extreme version of their pre-discussion tendency
Group polarization causes the group's average position to become more extreme in the direction of the members' initial leanings after discussion.
Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments revealed that the percentage of participants who delivered the maximum shock level was approximately:
Answer: 65%
In Milgram's original study, approximately 65% of participants delivered the maximum 450-volt shock, demonstrating the powerful influence of authority.
Normative social influence differs from informational social influence in that normative influence involves conforming to:
Answer: The desire to be liked and accepted by others
Normative social influence is driven by the desire for social approval and acceptance, not by genuine belief change, while informational influence involves using others as guides to reality.
The concept of 'minimal group paradigm' was developed to show that:
Answer: Arbitrary, meaningless categorization is sufficient to produce ingroup favoritism
Tajfel's minimal group paradigm demonstrated that even random, meaningless group assignments produce ingroup favoritism and outgroup discrimination.
What is the central premise of terror management theory?
Answer: Awareness of mortality motivates people to uphold cultural worldviews that provide symbolic immortality
Terror management theory proposes that human culture and self-esteem serve as buffers against the anxiety caused by awareness of inevitable death.
Which research finding best illustrates the concept of deindividuation?
Answer: Anonymity in crowds increases antisocial behavior
Deindividuation occurs when anonymity in a crowd reduces self-awareness and personal accountability, often leading to behaviors individuals would not perform alone.
The 'door-in-the-face' compliance technique works primarily through the principle of:
Answer: Reciprocal concessions
The door-in-the-face technique works because when a requester makes a large request and then concedes by making a smaller request, the target feels obligated to reciprocate by also conceding.