Sherif's Experiments of How People Judged the Amount of Movement

question 99

Multiple Choice

Sherif's experiments of how people judged the amount of movement of a dot of light in a dark room demonstrated that when there is no objectively correct response,participants were

• A) likely to doubt themselves and accept the group opinion.
• B) likely to doubt the group opinion, but nevertheless conform to it.
• C) not likely to follow the group opinion.
• D) likely to follow the group opinion, but only temporarily. When questioned alone later, their judgments shifted back to their initial, private judgment.

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Definitions:

Overhead Costs

Indirect costs incurred during the production process or in the performance of services, not directly tied to a specific product or service.

Activity Cost Pools

Groupings of individual costs, typically by department or activity, used in activity-based costing to allocate costs to products or services.

Time-Driven

A method or approach that relies on time as the main factor to drive processes, activities, or costing.

Activity-Based Costing

A costing method that assigns costs to products or services based on the activities they require, aiming to provide more accurate cost information.