You are doing a group project with 8 other people and it's due in one week. One group member suggests that it shouldn't be very hard to finish it up and that it can be completed the night before it needs to be handed in.
You feel that this is a bad idea but nobody else seems to be reacting negatively to his suggestion. Later you find out that others also believed that his plan bad idea. This illustrates an example of:
a. biased processing.
b. the chameleon effect.
c. an injunctive norm.
d. pluralistic ignorance.
Question 2
Muzafer Sherif conducted a study where he had participants estimate how far a light moved' in a dark room. Initially, people provided varied estimates.
However, after placing participants together in the dark room he found that after several trials there estimates began to converge. What did he find happened to participant's estimates after testing them again individually?
a. Participants' estimates began to vary widely again.
b. Participants' estimates were much lower than those initially provided.
c. Participants' estimates were much lower than the group estimate.
d. Participants' estimates continued to be consistent with the group estimate.
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