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Which of the following regarding conformity is FALSE?

According to Robert Zajonc, social facilitation:

Students working on a semester group project discuss whether to choose a safe, easy topic or a risky, challenging topic for their project.  At the beginning of the discussion, students express views leaning toward being in favor of undertaking a risky, challenging topic for their project.  If group polarization occurs, at the end of the discussion, the students will:

In class, we discussed the ‘blindfold study’ regarding social facilitation in which participants were required to perform a task while either a blindfolded or non-blindfolded confederate was in the room. The outcome of the ‘blindfold study’ seems to cast some doubt on (or discredit) the ____________________ explanation of social facilitation.

All of the following are conditions that makes social loafing less likely to occur EXCEPT:

Burger’s 2007 partial recreation of Milgram’s experiment showed a slight drop in obedience from Milgram’s results, but not the major decline in obedience that many had predicted in the years since the original Milgram studies were conducted.

Which of the following regarding conformity is FALSE?

Chartrand & Bargh (1999) had experimental confederates mimic (imitate) the mannerisms of some subjects but not others. They found:

Denise perceives her fellow New Yorkers as diverse in their beliefs and behaviors, but perceives all southerners as close-minded, religious bigots. ‘Southerners are all the same because that’s just the way they all are,’ says Denise. Her biased perception best characterizes which concept?

Eric does not know how to answer the cognitive dissonance essay question on his psychology test. He decides to write as many random facts as he can recall about attitudes instead of actually writing about cognitive dissonance theory, hoping the professor will not read the essay closely but will be sufficiently impressed by the length of the essay to give him a good score.  Eric is hoping to take advantage of the: