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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.

According to Robert Zajonc, social facilitation:

Which of the following regarding conformity is FALSE?

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.

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:

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?