Social Processes and Group Behavior

Q1A skilled typist and a beginner each type in front of coworkers. According to Zajonc's drive theory, what is most likely?

A. Arousal strengthens the dominant response, which is accurate typing for the expert and errors for the beginner. Neither uniform improvement nor uniform decline fits, and reversing the pattern contradicts the theory.

Q2The Stanford prison experiment is most criticized because:

B. Reports of guard instruction and role expectations undermine claims that roles alone produced abuse. The study had few participants, and its dramatic results are the source of its fame, not an absence of change.

Q3Which feature distinguishes groupthink from group polarization?

A. Groupthink involves self-censorship and pressure on dissenters. Polarization involves shifting to extremes through discussion, so the other options describe polarization or neither.

Q4Milgram's agentic state describes a person who:

C. People in the agentic state see themselves as instruments. Conscience-driven action is autonomous, peer following is conformity, and crowd anonymity is deindividuation.

Q5A new hire learns office customs by watching coworkers. This is mainly:

C. Adult learning in a new setting is secondary socialization. Primary socialization is early childhood, anticipatory socialization precedes a role, and total institutions are isolated settings.