Informational Social Influence Is Most Likely to Play a Significant

question 172

Multiple Choice

Informational social influence is most likely to play a significant role in which of the following situations?

• A) members of a jury trying to reach a verdict in a murder trial
• B) family members sitting around the living room trying to guess answers to a TV game show
• C) fraternity members encouraging each other to "chug-a-lug"
• D) two art students viewing a museum exhibit and discussing their preferences for different works

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, representing an average distance from the mean.

Mean

The average value obtained by adding all the data points in a set together and then dividing by the number of data points.

Standard Normal Curve

A symmetric bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of many types of data where the mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1.

Z-score

An index quantifying the position of a value relative to the average value in a dataset, expressed as the amount of standard deviations away from this mean.