Social Influence Reading Questions

1. What do experiments on conformity and obedience reveal about the power of social influence?

2. What is conformity?

3. Describe a time when you conformed.

4. Summaries the Solomon Asch study on conformity?

5. When are we most likely to conform according to experiments?

6. Summaries Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment.

7. Explain the results of Milgram’s experiment.

8. What surprises you most about the Milgram study?

9. Do you think that the Milgram study would have the same results today? Explain your response.

Like many students at university, you may be unhappy about the results you attain in exams. you may feel that even with all you are doing there must be something more -- or different-- you could be doing to get better grades. we have all at some time or other heard of that student who only studies a couple of hours for final exams and scores a's every time. we stand in awe of those who seem to breeze through without undue effort and seem to need very little in the way of studying to nail an exam. the reasons for success, in what i think are the vast majority of cases, are less esoteric than many students think: successful students consistently apply a series of productive strategies with view to attaining clearly identified learning and grade goals throughout the academic term.