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Which phenomenon did Muzafer Sherif study in his classic conformity experiment?
Which phenomenon did Muzafer Sherif study in his classic conformity experiment?
- The confirmation bias
- The bystander effect
- The autokinetic effect (correct)
- The placebo effect
What did subjects in Sherif's experiment estimate when they were alone?
What did subjects in Sherif's experiment estimate when they were alone?
- The amount of movement of a point of light (correct)
- The duration of the illusion
- The brightness of the room
- The distance between two points of light
What happened to the subjects' estimates when they were in a group?
What happened to the subjects' estimates when they were in a group?
- Their estimates became more accurate
- Their estimates remained the same
- Their estimates changed to match the group's (correct)
- Their estimates became more varied
What is the autokinetic effect?
What is the autokinetic effect?
What concept did Sherif evaluate in his conformity study?
What concept did Sherif evaluate in his conformity study?
Muzafer Sherif used the autokinetic effect in a classic study on ______
Muzafer Sherif used the autokinetic effect in a classic study on ______
In Sherif's study, subjects estimated the amount of ______ of a point of light
In Sherif's study, subjects estimated the amount of ______ of a point of light
When subjects were in a group, their judgments converged on some group ______
When subjects were in a group, their judgments converged on some group ______
The autokinetic effect is an ______ movement
The autokinetic effect is an ______ movement
Sherif's subjects' solitary estimates changed so that the group agreed upon the amount of ______
Sherif's subjects' solitary estimates changed so that the group agreed upon the amount of ______
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