Social Influence Multiple Choice QuestionsPart 2

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1. Social support helps people to resist social influence because:

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  • It provides a model of disobedience
  • It frees people to act according to their consciences
  • It breaks the unanimity of the majority
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2. People with authoritarian personality are very preoccupied with social status. Therefore, they:

  • Are servile and obedient towards those of higher status
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  • Feel sympathetic to those of lower status
  • Treat all people with respect
  • Tend not to be impressed of trappings of high status

3. The effects of social support where shown Asch's studies when:

  • A dissenter gave the correct answer all the time
  • Th participants wrote their answers down rather than stated them out loud
  • The task was more difficult because the lines were closer
  • The size of the majority was increased from 2 to 14

4. The massacre of unarmed civilians at My Lai by American soldiers can be explained by:

  • Neither the agentic state or legitimacy of authority
  • Legitimacy of authority
  • Both the agentic state and legitimacy of authority
  • Agentic state

5. A problem with the agentic state explanation is:

  • It is not as useful as legitimacy of state
  • It can't explain why some people in Milgrim's study did not obey the experimenter
  • There is no research support
  • It can't explain why the proportion of people in Milgrim's study who obeyed the experimenter was so high

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