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👥 Conformity & Obedience – A-level
Psychology · A-level — Asch, Milgram and Zimbardo, explanations of obedience and resistance to social influence
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A pupil publicly agrees with friends that a film was brilliant but privately still thinks it was dull. Which type of conformity is this?
Internalisation
Compliance
Identification
Minority influence
20s
In Milgram's 1963 baseline study, what percentage of participants continued to the maximum 450 volts?
35%
65%
100%
12.5%
20s
Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment was planned to last two weeks. After how many days was it stopped?
10 days
4 days
2 days
6 days
20s
In Asch's variations, how did conformity change as the number of confederates in the majority increased?
It was highest with just one confederate
It fell as the group grew larger than two
It rose up to three confederates, then levelled off
It rose steadily with every extra confederate
30s
Which of these Milgram variations produced the lowest rate of full obedience?
The teacher had to force the learner's hand onto a plate
The experimenter gave orders by telephone
The study moved to a run-down office block
The teacher and learner were in the same room
30s
A soldier harms civilians and says the officer who ordered it, not he, is responsible. Which explanation of obedience fits best?
Autonomous state
Agentic state
Identification
Internal locus of control
30s
When Asch made the comparison lines more similar in length, conformity increased. Which explanation best accounts for this?
Agentic shift
Normative social influence
Informational social influence
Conformity to social roles
30s
In Moscovici's blue–green slide study, roughly what percentage of answers were 'green' when the minority was consistent?
About 37%
About 8%
About 65%
About 1%
30s
According to Adorno et al., the authoritarian personality mainly develops from which childhood experience?
Permissive parenting with few rules
Harsh, strict parenting with conditional love
An inherited high-anxiety temperament
Frequent contact with uniformed officials
30s
Rotter's concept of locus of control predicts which people are most likely to resist social influence?
Those high on the F-scale
Those in a strong agentic state
Those with an internal locus of control
Those with an external locus of control
30s