In the 1957 Sidney Lumet film Twelve Angry Men, 12 jurors have to decide over the guilt or innocence of a young man changed with the murder of his father. At the outset, all but one of the jurors are convinced of the youth’s guilt. The lone juror (played by Henry Fond (a) actively attempts to change their minds, standing firm, committed self-confident and unwavering. One by one the other jurors change sides, until in the end they all agree that the accused in not guilty. Which form of social influence is this an example of?

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1. In the 1957 Sidney Lumet film Twelve Angry Men, 12 jurors have to decide over the guilt or innocence of a young man changed with the murder of his father. At the outset, all but one of the jurors are convinced of the youth’s guilt. The lone juror (played by Henry Fond (a) actively attempts to change their minds, standing firm, committed self-confident and unwavering. One by one the other jurors change sides, until in the end they all agree that the accused in not guilty. Which form of social influence is this an example of?

   A. Conformity
   B. Minority influence
   C. Normative influence
   D. Informational influence

2. According to Piaget, a child who is confident that the quantity of milk is a glass does not change when it is poured into a glass of different shape is probably _________________?

   A. between 3 and 5 years old
   B. able to conserve volume
   C. in the preoperational stage of cognitive development
   D. engaging in egocentric patterns of play

3. An experimenter who has been carefully trained in the techniques of self-observation uses himself as his object. He attempts to analyze his own immediate experience into its elements. This study would most likely occur in the laboratory of ____________?

   A. John Watson
   B. Max Wertheimer
   C. Hermann von Helmholtz
   D. Edward Titchener

4. Which phase of teaching becomes effective insofar as a teacher attempts to condition a learner towards meeting progressive change in his environment?

   A. Quality phase
   B. Progressive phase
   C. Actual phase
   D. Directional phase

5. To be confident that a cause-and-effect relationship exists, it is necessary to:

   A. engage in naturalistic observation
   B. develop a positive correlation
   C. perform a controlled experiment
   D. test for a negative correlation

6. Always having been a good student, lrving is confident that he will do well in his psychology course. According to Bandura’s cognitive theory, lrving would be said to have:

   A. strong feelings of self-efficacy
   B. a sense of superiority
   C. strong feelings of self-esteem
   D. strong defense mechanisms

7. Mr. Walters has many years of experience as a personal officers for a large corporation. He does not review most job applicants’ reference files because he is confident of his ability to predict their future work performance based on his direct face-to-face conversations with them. Mr. Walters’ confidence best illustrates:

   A. the interviewer illusion
   B. social leadership
   C. 360-degree feedback
   D. the halo error

8. The famous ruling that led to the present day plea of “not guilty by reason of insanity” is the:

   A. common law defense
   B. Harrison decision
   C. M’Naghten rule
   D. Twinkle defense

9. A child in Piaget’s preoperational stage is given a toy and attempts to eat it. This child is demonstrating ____________?

   A. generalization
   B. accommodation
   C. assimilation
   D. transition

10. The emphasis is on detailed information rather than generalizations, but the approach attempts to look at the whole rather than collect specific bits of:

    A. Study
    B. Information
    C. Scientific approaches
    D. Evaluation