Question 1 (1 point)
Mary walks into her Social Psychology classroom, and sees that everyone who arrived before her is standing, rather than sitting as she expected. Mary is confused, but walks to her desk and stands next to it. This is an example of___________________.
Question 1 options:
Obedience
Compliance
Conformity
Peer pressure
Question 2 (1 point)
In Sherif’s classic studies on norm formation, he found that George (the participant), having made personal observations and estimates a day earlier and when joined by two other individuals whose estimates were very different from George’s (8 inches), but which were very similar to each other (1 inch, two inches), the participant would change his/her estimate to come much closer to that of the other two.
Question 2 options:
True
False
Question 3 (1 point)
When commanded to do so by a person in authority, individuals will commit immoral acts that they would never consider doing otherwise.
Question 3 options:
True
False