You Ask a Student to Describe the Path to His

question 118

Multiple Choice

You ask a student to describe the path to his dorm room. The most likely way in which he will do this is to ________.

• A) recite a rote list of directions he memorized
• B) give you the GPS location of his dorm room
• C) walk through a mental image of the path and describe it to you as he does it
• D) draw you a map and then describe it to you

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Definitions:

Obedience To Authority

The tendency to follow orders or directions from someone recognized as a figure of authority.

Social Facilitation

Social facilitation refers to the phenomenon where an individual's performance improves when performing tasks in the presence of others compared to when alone.

Pluralistic Ignorance

A psychological state in which the majority of group members privately reject a norm, but assume incorrectly that most others accept it, leading to a compliance with the norm.

Original Obedience Study

The Original Obedience Study refers to the series of experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s, which investigated the willingness of participants to obey authority figures even when asked to perform actions conflicting with their personal conscience.