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Explanations of social influence

Quiz by Jen Curran

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  • Q1

    Organise the following explanations under the correct heading

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    60s
  • Q2

    Which of the following statements best describes the agentic state?

    People make others feel responsible for their actions

    People no longer feel responsible for their actions as they are acting for an authority figure

    People feel that they are not responsible for the actions of a groups

    People feel responsible for their actions and act according to their own principles

    60s
  • Q3

    A mental state that we shift in to when we follow orders from an authority figure. We feel no personal responsibility or guilt for our actions because we believe that we are acting on behalf of the person who holds higher status and it is them who is responsible/ accountable.

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    60s
  • Q4

    Organise these points under the most appropriate heading

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    120s
  • Q5

    When someone feels responsible for their own actions, they are in an agentic state

    false
    true
    True or False
    30s
  • Q6

    An individual in an agentic state does not feel guilty for following orders

    true
    false
    True or False
    60s
  • Q7

    An agentic shift occurs when someone has been acting on their own behalf then follows orders from an authority figure.

    true
    false
    True or False
    60s
  • Q8

    Milgram stated that once an individual enters the agentic state, they remain there because of the pressures they feel from the authority figure or because of the legitimacy of the situation. These are examples of ........ factors. What word is missing?

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    120s
  • Q9

    Which of the following is NOT a binding factor that maintains the agentic state?

    Personality type

    Reluctance to disobey and disrupt the situation

    Pressure from authority

    Legitimacy of the situation

    30s
  • Q10

    Milgram stated that the agentic state was dependent on binding factors 

    true
    false
    True or False
    60s
  • Q11

    The agentic shift is a situational explanation of obedience

    true
    false
    True or False
    60s
  • Q12

    The agentic shift is a dispositional explanation of obedience

    false
    true
    True or False
    60s
  • Q13

    One strength of agentic state as an explanation for obedience is that it produces testable experimental predictions

    true
    false
    True or False
    60s
  • Q14

    Many of the civilians who committed war crimes in the Rwandan genocide and in the German Holocaust reported that the pressure from the authorities was a strong motive for their actions and that they were merely following orders. Which explanation of obedience does this support?

    Informational social influence

    Authoritarian personality

    Agentic state

    Normative social influence

    30s
  • Q15

    Which of the following studies does NOT support the Agentic shift as an explanation of obedience?

    Hofling

    Milgram

    Asch

    WW2 - holocaust

    120s

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