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AQA Psychology AS and A level Year 1, 6e Michael Eysenck

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Chapter 1: Preparing for the Exam

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Chapter 2

1 Sherif (1935) carried out research to investigate:

(A) Bystander intervention (B) Obedience (C) Leadership (D) Conformity (E) Stereotyping

Answer: (D) Conformity

• The lowest obedience to authority caused by increased awareness of the learner's plight

in Milgram's studies was found by manipulating which condition?

(A) Remote feedback (B) Touch-proximity (C) Proximity (D) Voice feedback (E) Visual feedback

Answer: (B) Touch-proximity

• Which of the following studies did not find obedience rates similar to those found by

Milgram?

(A) Lesar et al.(B) Turner and Solomon (C) Hofling et al.(D) Rank and Jacobsen (E) Dambrun and Vatiné

Answer: (D) Rank and Jacobsen

• Blass and Schmitt's research showed people are most likely to obey because they

perceive the authority has:

(A) Reward and referent power (B) Coercive and informational power (C) Legitimate and expert power (D) All of these (E) None of these

Answer: (C) Legitimate and expert power

• In Milgram's studies, participants entered an ""agentic state"" where they became an

instrument of the authority figure. What was the other state of consciousness suggested by Milgram, where we voluntarily direct our behaviour?

(A) Knowledgeable state (B) Authoritarian state (C) Independent state (D) Autonomous state (E) Free state

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Answer: (D) Autonomous state

• Which one of the following is NOT a characteristic of the authoritarian personality

(Adorno et al., 1950)?

(A) Submissive attitudes towards authority figures (B) Rigid beliefs in conventional values (C) General hostility towards other groups (D) Intolerance of ambiguity (E) Reared by a single mother

Answer: (E) Reared by a single mother

• Which of the following is NOT a feature of having a high internal locus of control?

(A) Low self-esteem (B) Low authoritarianism (C) Increased independent behaviour (D) Lower likelihood to conform to mistaken views (E) Lower likelihood to obey unreasonable orders

Answer: (A) Low self-esteem

• Which of the following is a suggestion from psychological research that the way to resist

unreasonable demands for obedience is to:

(A) Question authority if their demands seem unreasonable (B) Educate people about the dangers of blind obedience (C) Remind people they have personal responsibility (D) Provide role models who refuse to obey (E) All of these

Answer: (E) All of these

• Which of the following is NOT one of Moscovici's requirements for effective minority

influence?

(A) Commitment (B) Obedience (C) Flexibility (D) Consistency (E) Relevance

Answer: (B) Obedience

10 Orne and Holland claimed that Milgram’s study lacked mundane realism. This means that

the study:

(A) Lacked strong characters (B) Was not very ordinary (C) Was conducted in an artificial controlled environment (D) Didn’t concern behaviour that we encounter in everyday life (E) All of these

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