Florida College Implicit vs Explicit Social Influence Questions
Answer the following questions:
- 1. Compare and contrast implicit versus explicit social influence, including Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience.
- 2. Differentiate between informational and normative social pressures to conform.
- 3. Explain Asch’s (1951) classic study of conformity.
- 4. Explain how the minority can enhance the quality of a group’s decision making.
- 5. Explain the difference regarding social norms between collectivistic cultures versus individualistic cultures.
- 6. Analyze how social roles lead us to conform to situational expectations.
- 7. Describe the foot-in-the-door and door-in-theface techniques that lead people to gain compliance.
- 8. Explain the person, procedures, and competing interpretations behind the Milgram experiments on authority.
