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The scientific study of how our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviors are influenced by the groups we belong

Social psychology

Who conducted the leadership style experiment

Kurt Lewin

Who conducted the conformity experiment

Solomon Asch

Who conducted the obedience to authority experiment

Stanley MilgramWho

Who conducted the Stanford Prison experiment

Philip Zimbardo

Change is behavior brought about social pressure to comply with people perceived to be authority figures

Obedience

What was the independent variable in Milgram’s obedience experiment

The authority figure

What was the dependent variable in Milgram’s obedience experiment

Obedience

What percentage of participants in Milgram’s Obedience Experiment went all the way to 450 volts

65% (26 out of 40)

What did Milgram use to measure the behavior of obedience

The shock machine

Kind of leadership style: leader makes all the decisions and assigns tasks to group members

Authoritarian

Kind of leadership style: leader is only minimally involved in group decision making

Laissez-Faire

Kind of leadership style: leader encourage group members to come to decisions through consensus

Democratic

According to Kurt Lewin’s Leadership Experiment, which leadership style is the best

Democratic

In Lewin’s Leadership Style Experiment, what was the Independent Variable

Leadership style

In Lewin’s Leadership Style experiment, what was the dependent variable

Productivity

Acting in accord with group norms or customs

Conformity

Approximately what percentage of participants conformed at least once during Solomon Asch’s experiment

70%I

In Asch’s Conformity Experiment, what was the Independent Variable

The size of the group

In Asch’s conformity experiment, what was the dependent variable

Conformity

A cognitive bias that causes one’s perspective of another to be unduly influenced by a single positive trait, such as being attractive

Halo effect

A cognitive bias that causes one’s perception of another to be unduly influenced by a single negative trait

Horn effect

Tendency to attribute one’s own behavior to situational causes but to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes

Actor-observer bias

An inclination to over-attribute other’s behavior to internal causes and to discount situational factors

Fundamental attribution error