Social influence overview quiz - AQA GCSE Psychology quiz

Following a direct order from authority

Helping a person in need

Changing behaviour to match a group

Losing identity in a crowd

Giving electric shocks to a learner who answered wrongly

Recalling a story

Solving difficult maths problems

Judging which line matched a standard line

Harder tasks increase conformity

Harder tasks reduce conformity

Task difficulty has no effect

Only easy tasks cause conformity

Matching your own behaviour to that of a wider social group

Following a direct order from an authority figure

Helping a stranger

Acting aggressively in an anonymous crowd

Feeling fully responsible for your own actions and all their consequences

Losing your sense of personal identity within a large crowd

Acting as an agent for an authority, feeling the authority is responsible

Refusing to obey an order

The authority figure being far away from you

A run-down, shabby location

Acting completely anonymously

An authority figure wearing a uniform

Behaviour intended to help or benefit others

Behaviour that deliberately harms other people

Following an order from authority

Losing your identity in a crowd

Feeling much more personally responsible than usual

The loss of personal identity in a group or crowd

Helping a person who is in need

Conforming to the majority view

People help much more readily when other people are present

People always help out in emergencies

People are less likely to help when others are present

People tend to obey authority in a crowd

Feeling that all of the responsibility for acting now rests upon you and you alone

A particular type of majority conformity

Obeying an authority figure without question

Responsibility being spread across a group so each person feels less responsible

Feeling similar to the victim

Feeling no similarity to the victim

Being in a large crowd

Acting anonymously