Author Question: All of the following are examples of informational social influence EXCEPT a. you are running a ... (Read 279 times)

RODY.ELKHALIL · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

All of the following are examples of informational social influence EXCEPT

a. you are running a race, but because you are unsure of the route, you wait to check which of two roads the other runners follow.
b. you've just started work at a new job, and a fire alarm goes off; you watch your coworkers to see what to do.
c. when you get to college, you change the way you dress so that you fit in betterthat is, so that people will like you more.
d. you ask your adviser which classes you should take next semester.

Question 2

In Asch's line studies, participants who were alone when asked to report the length of the lines gave the correct answer 98 of the time.

However, when they were with the confederates who sometimes gave an obviously wrong answer, 76 of participants gave the wrong answer at least once. This suggests that Asch's studies are an illustration of
a. public compliance with private acceptance.
b. public compliance without private acceptance.
c. informational influence.
d. private compliance.